infectious disease

Palmetto General Hospital, 360 bed community hospital in Hialeah, FL with residencies in internal medicine and podiatry, fellowships in infectious diseases, cardiology, critical care and neurology. ACGME accredited program, primarily hospital consults with blocks for outpatient HIV/STI...

The University of Kentucky Infectious Disease Fellowship program has an opening for the 2024-2025 academic year! At the University of Kentucky, our mission is to train the next generation of infectious disease clinicians, clinician-educators, and clinician-scientists to provide excellence in...

Hi everyone, I’m an internal medicine attending at Stanford. In a few weeks, we will have a conversation with the former CDC Director, Dr. Julie Gerberding, and we’d love to ask what career questions you might have for the CDC director. Feel free to post them here or message me directly!

With the pandemic and the drop in ID compensation, what is the typical salary in academic center vs private practice for ID physician for pure ID position (not doing primary care)? Is the job market pretty saturated in big city? Are most ID physicians practicing both primary care and ID at the...

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Coag negative staph is growing in 2 of 2 samples of blood cultures however the patient has no medical devices. Would you consider this a contamination or would you treat as a bacteremia?

I am a current 3rd year and I love ID/HIV care but also OBGYN. I know there is the IDSOG option for ID training for OBGYNs but only 4 of those. Anyone know of other routes to be able to practice ID in some capacity as an OBGYN? Or more broadly ID fellowships open to non-IM trained MDs?

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I am a prospective PhD student who has received admission offer from both Emory University and University of Georgia (UGA). I am very interested in describing infectious disease processes by analyzing risk factors (using statistical methods), as well as modeling disease dynamics. Career-wise, I...

I did med school in Honduras. I did all 3 steps of USMLE. I did IM residency in the U.S. I did ID fellowship in the U.S. I am US Board Certified in both IM and ID. I've now been working in private practice in the U.S. for 2 years. My documents are currently being verified through...

From a couple of my previous posts and my "research" on Reddit I found out that Critical Care is a great speciality that offers variety, you can diagnose, you can do procedures, people are collapsing out of various reasons, it just seems to be a great anti-boring speciality. On the other hand...

Hi! HPSP applicant here who has been accepted to his state medical school. I have been doing research out the wazo to find answers to my questions, but have yet to get a solid answer. I thought I would post here for some honest help! My situation: Accepted to state medical school, which will...

Hi, I recently graduated with a BS and BA in Biochemistry/Cell Biology and Anthropology, and a minor in Global Health. I am highly interested in understanding infectious diseases, especially neglected tropical diseases such as leishmaniasis and hydatidosis, as these are diseases I have...

As name of this threat suggest, what I am asking in if there is anything that can be combined with Infectious Diseseases and why would that one combination be good with it. Like, for example only, Dr. House is ID and nephrologist, I dont know if it is only to show that hes genius or if ID and...

Hello, Is anyone on here a current or past Army Infectious Disease specialist? If so, where were you stationed? What was your typical workweek like? What was your caseload like? Is there anything that you particularly like/dislike about ID milmed? I'm just looking for experiences and opinions...

I'm guessing this is highly dependent on MPH vs. PhD, academia vs. industry, etc. Say someone has a PhD, would industry or academia be more suitable to someone who wants to travel and do fieldwork? I'm specifically interested in eco-epidemiology and the intersection between infectious disease...

Hi! I am currently a fourth year student specialised in Physics at Cambridge University. Even though I am interested in maths and physics, I have always felt the need to do something that has an impact on people. And over the past two years, I became increasingly interested in infectious disease...

Hi, Apologies if this is a dumb question, but 1) What is the mode of operation of malaria chemoprophlaxis (it seems to me, the drugs are the same as those used to treat malaria, so is the mechanism of action just to have your body filled with drugs which will destroy any plasmodium which...

Currently a student at Penn state on the kinesology track ( i changed from drexel nursing to here) I was seeing if switching to immunology and infectious disease would be a good idea for med school? Kines is cool but im not just feeling it.

I'm trying where I can to get a medical opinion. Maybe someone here can let me know something... and sorry for the unpleasantness. I'm experiencing flu like symptoms and body soreness. If I'm worried I have a TSS infection caused by extended tampon wear, would that condition be eliminated if...