Drs. Suzanne Templer, Jaan Naktin, and Alex Benjamin
The primary focus of this rotation is the inpatient consultative service. Students will be expected to round collaboratively with a team including rotating residents, physician assistants, our ID pharmacist, as well as the attending physician. To complement this focus, the student will participate in ID journal club, case management series, and medical grand rounds. The student will also be exposed to other ID-related services, including microbiology and laboratory medicine, infection control, travel medicine, HIV, wound management, and antibiotic stewardship.
Objectives
- Apply the principles of comprehensive history taking and physical examination to generate a differential diagnosis and to select advanced testing modalities.
- Improve their assessment and management of disease processes using evidence-based literature and interdisciplinary communication.
- Apply principles of empiricism and stewardship to antibiotic selection and mangement.
- Improve familiarity with antimicrobial therapies, including antibiotic classes, adverse drug reactions and interactions.
- Understand various states of immunosuppression (hereditary, drug-induced, acquired, organ transplant-related) and infections related to these.
- Summarize Infection Control protocol to minimize spread of disease.
- Deduce the appropriate method for treating microbial infections.
- Identify the correct type of antibiotic to treat bacterial Infections.