Overview

Overview

Cleveland Clinic's Department of Infectious Disease offers a clinically oriented fellowship program with a broad exposure to every facet of infectious diseases. We feel our clinical experience is second to none. We emphasize clinical research for our fellows and carefully follow the inception and progression of the various research projects.

For those interested in transplant medicine, clinical microbiology training, and/or subspecialty areas within infectious diseases, this program offers intensive clinical training in these important areas. We strive to use the latest knowledge of adult educational processes and integrate an academic curriculum with robust clinical experiences.

Our fellowship program is accredited by the Residency Review Committee (RRC) of the American Board of Internal Medicine. The program was last reviewed by the RRC in 2018 and was fully re-accredited. The ID board pass rate for our fellows has been 100 percent for the past 20+ years.

Philosophy

The goal of the Infectious Diseases fellowship training program at the Cleveland Clinic is to train clinician-educators and clinician-scholars using the latest in educational techniques and adult learning theory.

We train fellows who are deeply committed to excellence in clinical medicine, who wish to contribute significantly to the field of infectious diseases as scholars, and who plan busy practices in complex tertiary (and quaternary) care centers in the United States and globally.

The secret to patient care is to first care about the patient.

 We place the highest priority for fellowship training in the clinical months at the bedside. We do not consider the clinical months as "necessary evils" to be grouped together for 12 straight months, so that the real business of bench research can be performed uninterrupted. The clinical months are the showcase of our program. We consider the physician-patient interaction to be the heart of learning and the essence of what it means to be a clinician

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