E. Didactics

1. Inpatient and Consultation Teaching

a) Teaching rounds with patient encounters as described above. Patient evaluation and care provides a forum for discussion of interpretation of clinical data, pathophysiology, differential diagnosis, specific management of the patient, the appropriate use of technology, the incorporation of evidence and patient values in decision making and disease prevention.

b) Total teaching time spent in combined management and teaching rounds averages 15-20 hours per week

2. Conferences and Seminars

a) One weekly conference (City-Wide Infectious Disease Problem Conference) of 90 minutes duration is held and attended by ID fellows and faculty, medical students and house officers, private practitioners of infectious disease, and infectious disease faculty of Eisenhower Army Medical Center, as well as interested physicians from the community

b) Weekly Core curriculum conference series of 30 minutes duration covering major clinical infectious disease topics:

c) Basic Science lectures: participation in the microbiology and clinical lectures given as part of the sophomore medical student curriculum—available daily throughout the academic year

d) Journal Club—given weekly in concert with the City-Wide Infectious Disease Problem Conference (see description above)

e) Daily teaching rounds are often begun in the microbiology labs to review pertinent microscopy on patients being evaluated by the ID Consult Service

f) Fellows are part of the rotation for presentation of didactic lectures

3. Interdisciplinary Topics

a) In the course of the ID fellowship, fellows become proficient in critical assessment of the medical literature, medical informatics, clinical epidemiology, and biostatistics

b) Diverse scheduled conferences are available at MCG on the following subjects: clinical ethics, medical genetics, quality assessment, quality improvement, patient safety, risk management, preventive medicine, pain management, end-of-life care, and physician impairment. Fellows are encouraged to attend any and all of these conferences as their time permits.