You have ample opportunities to enhance your teaching skills during this program. Through bedside instruction, case-based discussions and didactic lectures, you can educate and guide internal medicine and transitional year residents as well as medical students who rotate on the infectious diseases service.

You are invited to the Internal Medicine Morning Report by the chief residents on a periodic basis to render an expert opinion if an infectious diseases case is being discussed. You also have the opportunity to lead Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP)-based noon conferences for residents in which infectious disease questions are discussed with a rationale for arriving at the correct answer.

To ensure that you acquire adequate knowledge and develop appropriate clinical skills to meet program expectations, your performance is monitored carefully during the Infectious Diseases Fellowship. You are formally evaluated by supervising faculty members on a regular basis and meet with the program director to review these evaluations. In addition, you regularly evaluate the faculty to confirm that your educational needs are being met.