The clinical experience will be through inpatient and outpatient rotations at CHOC, with additional experiences at UCI Medical Center and Orange County Health Care Agency. This will allow the fellow physician to provide pediatric infectious disease consult services to the local community, which includes children of diverse medical needs and social and economic backgrounds.

During the first year of training, fellows will experience one four-week rotation on the adult infectious disease medicine team at UCI Medical Center, an invaluable experience exposing them to the differences, intricacies and overlap of infectious diseases in the adult versus pediatric setting. Fellows will be scheduled to be on call, including weekends, for eight weeks each of the three years.

 

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Infectious disease inpatient clinical rotations:

  • Critical care and hematology/oncology units
  • General pediatrics and surgical units
  • A one-month adult infectious diseases experience at UCI Medical Center
  • A two-week rotation at the Orange County Health Care Agency to train in epidemiology of infectious diseases (e.g., tuberculosis, sexually transmitted diseases and other reportable diseases), obtain exposure to lab techniques and diagnostics tests available through the health department, and learn about outbreak investigation and mitigation.

Infectious disease outpatient clinical rotations:

  • The pediatric infectious diseases clinic
  • Primary immunodeficiency clinic – a multidisciplinary clinic with infectious disease, hematology and immunology
  • HIV/KIDS clinics