Trainee experience

The Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant Infectious Diseases Fellowship prepares you for professional practice in the specialty of infectious diseases in both inpatient and outpatient settings.

Throughout this residency/fellowship, you will gain experience in the following areas of infectious diseases:

• Microbiology
• Antimicrobial stewardship
• General inpatient infectious diseases
• Transplant inpatient infectious diseases
• Care of the outpatient on parenteral antibiotics
• General outpatient infectious diseases
• Pre-transplant infectious diseases evaluations
• Travel medicine

Clinical training and rotations

The NP/PA fellows will initiate their education in the microbiology lab and with our inpatient pharmacy/antimicrobial stewardship team, utilizing well-established partnerships and didactic coursework to gain baseline knowledge. Fellows will then rotate with the inpatient and outpatient infectious diseases teams in mentored, team-based bedside education and patient care. Additionally, fellows will have the opportunity to rotate with specialties of personal interest to expand the depth of their understanding of holistic infectious diseases care, such as orthopedic surgery, solid organ transplant, nephrology, palliative care, or hematology/oncology.

Didactic coursework

Didactic education will be structured with clear expectations and include a mixture of lectures, assigned reading, online modules, medical grand rounds, educational conferences, journal clubs, and case presentations.

Schedule and hours

For the majority of the fellowship, the learning schedule primarily includes weekday hours, with a commitment of approximately 40 to 50 hours weekly, which includes time for the expected didactic learning. The rotations may vary with eight- to 10-hour days, four to five days a week depending on the outpatient or inpatient schedule.

Department and faculty

The Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant Infectious Diseases Fellowship is coordinated and taught by an interdisciplinary team, including nurse practitioners, physician assistants, allied health, and physician staff in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida. Rotations outside of the division may also occur.

Faculty members are committed to teaching, clinical practice, and research. Many have a broad range of clinical, research, and publication experience and are highly regarded in their fields. You will have direct access to these individuals throughout your training, allowing you to learn from experienced practitioners in the field of infectious diseases.

Facilities

Mayo Clinic's campus in Jacksonville, Florida, is a comprehensive medical facility providing advanced programs in education and research that support the highest quality patient care.

As a trainee, you will be working in the variety of settings, rotating between the hospital building for inpatient rounds and the outpatient infectious diseases clinic in the Davis building.

Evaluation

Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences uses these evaluative tools:

• Written examination
• Demonstration of skills
• Self-assessment exercises
• Faculty reviews

Mayo Clinic's system of evaluation provides students and faculty with a comprehensive look at individual performance. This allows faculty and administrative staff to direct students who are experiencing academic difficulty to the appropriate support resources, including tutoring programs and counseling opportunities.