Clinical Infectious Disease and Microbiology
ME 513M.23
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Description
The course will provide students with an inpatient clinical experience in Infectious Diseases. Students will be a member of a clinical Infectious Disease consult team staffed by faculty and fellows. This is a hands-on experience, and students will evaluate and follow patients daily with various infectious disease syndromes. Daily rounds with the clinical team will serve as an opportunity to discuss diagnosis and management. Students will attend three weekly scheduled clinical conferences and a weekly teaching session in the microbiology laboratory. The course will emphasize the pathophysiology of infectious disease, differential diagnosis and principles of antimicrobial therapy. There will be an opportunity to see a broad spectrum of clinical problems including common community-acquired infections, HIV/AIDS, nosocomial infections and infections related to immunosuppression, surgery and pregnancy. Students will meet regularly with the course director for small group didactics.
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