Pediatric Infectious Diseases (Clinical Elective)

2 units

This elective is designed to engage students in the clinical aspects of routine and complex infectious diseases in children (ages birth to 18 years). Students will perform ID specialty consultations on both inpatients and outpatients. Regular daily activities will include evaluation of new patients, work rounds on inpatient consults, and teaching rounds with the ID fellow and/or attending. Students will attend the general pediatric ID clinic and the pediatric HIV clinic, one half-day each per week. Formal teaching includes HIV and ID Core Curriculum sessions, a weekly pediatric ID case conference, a weekly joint clinical conference with the adult ID division, and weekly clinical microbiology teaching rounds with Pathology faculty from the bacteriology and molecular diagnostics labs.