Fellowship Program in Infectious Diseases

Overview

The goals of The Mount Sinai Hospital Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program are to provide comprehensive training in the principles and practice of infectious diseases and to prepare our fellows for academic careers in basic science, clinical investigation, education, and public health. The mandatory two-year program offers extremely diverse clinical training in general infectious diseases, transplant infectious diseases, HIV, microbiology, hospital epidemiology, infection control and viral hepatitis. Additionally, a structured research program provides mentored research training tailored to each fellow's specific interests. To achieve our goal of developing future academic leaders in our field, we encourage additional years of research training and on an individual basis also offer complementary training programs in clinical research and public health.

The primary teaching site of the program is The Mount Sinai Hospital, a tertiary care teaching hospital in Manhattan with large inpatient and ambulatory care services. A substantial component of the training also occurs at Elmhurst Hospital Center, a city hospital in Queens, New York, that provides both inpatient and ambulatory care for the most ethnically diverse community in the United States. Fellows are exposed to diverse patient populations that include inner city and immigrant patients.

The comprehensive clinical and research curriculum is complemented by an educational curriculum that includes a weekly clinical case conference, weekly microbiology rounds, weekly, infectious diseases grand rounds, biweekly fellow lecture series, and monthly journal club. Our grand rounds features expert faculty from our own institution as well as internationally recognized leaders and covers a broad range of topics within infectious diseases and related fields including microbiology, immunology, pharmacology, and epidemiology.

The Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai School of Medicine are internationally acclaimed for excellence in clinical care, education, and scientific research in nearly every aspect of medicine.