ID/IPC Fellowship

First Year: Clinical Training

The first year of the HE/IPC Track is similar to the first year in the other fellowship tracks of our program and is dedicated to providing clinical exposure to a broad spectrum of infectious diseases.

Fellows spend the majority of their first year rotating through the infectious diseases (ID) consult services at our program’s three hospitals under the supervision of an attending physician. These Stanford services include General ID at all three hospitals, Transplant ID services (which specialize in the care of patients with malignancies, solid-organ transplants, and hematopoietic cell transplants), ICU-ID, and others.

Fellows also spend a month learning fundamental aspects of microbiology and virology in the clinical laboratory, a month rotating through subspecialty outpatient ID clinics, and another month training in antimicrobial stewardship / hospital epidemiology at Stanford.

Second Year

The second year of the HE/IPC Track includes a small amount of time on clinical services, with at least 80% of the year dedicated to hospital epidemiology / infection prevention & control. Under the guidance of Stanford’s world-class HE/IPC program, this will include time on daily HE/IPC rounds, participation in task forces and outbreak investigations, attendance at several regular HE/IPC hospital meetings, and long-term, longitudinal projects that we anticipate would result in publications and conference presentations. Graduates of this track will become experts in HE/IPC, well equipped to lead such programs at hospitals nationally.

A continuity clinic is maintained one half-day per week throughout the first two years of training in the program: in General Infectious Diseases clinic the first year, and in HIV clinic the second. Fellows also participate in weekly didactic and research conferences.

Fellows spend the majority of their first year rotating through the infectious diseases (ID) consult services at our program’s three hospitals under the supervision of an attending physician. These Stanford services include General ID at all three hospitals, Transplant ID services (which specialize in the care of patients with malignancies, solid-organ transplants, and hematopoietic cell transplants), ICU-ID, and others.

Fellows also spend a month learning fundamental aspects of microbiology and virology in the clinical laboratory, a month rotating through subspecialty outpatient ID clinics, and another month training in antimicrobial stewardship / hospital epidemiology at Stanford.

Curriculum

Core competencies
  1. Outbreak investigation
  2. Evaluate a surveillance system
  3. Lead one analytic project
  4. Write an abstract
  5. Give an oral presentation to a scientific audience
  6. Write a scientific manuscript for a peer-reviewed journal
  7. Service to the program
  8. Communicate complex scientific concepts to a nonscientific audience
Chalk talk series
  1. Central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) prevention
  2. Catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) prevention
  3. Clostridioides difficile infection CDI prevention
  4. Surgical site infection (SSI) prevention
  5. Environmental infection prevention: water
  6. Environmental infection prevention: air
  7. Environmental infection prevention: surfaces
  8. Cleaning and disinfection
  9. Sterilization
  10. IP in special settings: operating rooms
  11. IP in special settings: bone marrow transplant
  12. IP in special settings: burn units
  13. IP in special settings: intensive care units
  14. Hand hygiene
  15. Public Health surveillance
  16. Quality improvement science
  17. Transmission-based precautions
  18. Multidrug resistant infections
  19. Emerging and high consequence pathogens (e.g., ebola)
  20. Tuberculosis
  21. Creating a business case
  22. Data visualization
  23. Database management
  24. Novel technologies in Infection Prevention (ultraviolet light, artificial intelligence)
  25. Molecular epidemiology
  26. Talking to the media
Other activities
  1. Monthly journal club
  2. Weekly huddles
  3. Attendance at Stanford Healthcare-associated infection taskforces

Current and former fellows and students

ID fellows

Eugenia Miranti
Guillermo Rodriguez-Nava
Krithika Srinivasan

International fellows

Sulwan Algain

Master’s students

Margot Bellon