The two-year fellowship has the traditional educational, research and patient care components and is supported by the division’s full-time and volunteer faculty that consists of ID physicians, ID PharmDs, and two pathology-trained MD/PhD or PhD clinical microbiologists. Training is based at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH), New Brunswick, NJ, the core clinical teaching site of Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS) and the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ).
The fellowship blocks include:
- inpatient consultation services involving (1) General ID (2) Immunocompromised Host, including leukemia, lymphoma, stem cell transplants and solid organ transplants (heart, kidney and pancreas)
- outpatient consultations that include general ID, transplant ID and a continuity of care experience
- bench or clinical research
- a microbiology laboratory rotation
- an optional pediatric ID rotation
In addition, fellows gain experience in infection prevention & hospital epidemiology and in antimicrobial stewardship.
During the clinical inpatient rotations, the fellow is responsible for the workup of patients referred for ID consultation. Both inpatient services average three to five new consults per day. Each fellow will be on call covering both services approximately one weekend a month, and there is call (from home) every third to fourth night on average. Fellows participate actively in student and resident training.
Fellows gain outpatient continuity of care experience by partnering with one of the full-time faculty one morning per week in their office practice, caring for patients with a variety of infectious diseases including HIV and Hepatitis C, and Transplant ID.
The infectious disease fellowship program was reaccredited in 2023 by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and was commended for its demonstrated substantial compliance with the ACGME’s requirements for graduate medical education. This program has received the maximum length between reaccreditations.
