Clinical Infectious Disease in the Transplant and Cancer Patient

Harvard HMS

This course will provide students an opportunity to explore in depth the work-up and management of infections in immunocompromised hosts. Specifically, patients seen on this rotation will be primarily oncology patients and patients having undergone bone marrow or solid organ (heart, lung or kidney) transplantation. On a daily basis, students will be asked to evaluate new patients in consultation as well as follow-up on previously seen patients. The differential diagnosis and management will…