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MD Fellowship in Infectious Diseases
MD Fellowship Program in Clinical Infectious Diseases
The Infectious Disease Fellowship at the University of Virginia is a three-year program with the aim of producing world class physicians dedicated to a career in academic infectious diseases. It provides rigorous training and supervised experience with an internationally recognized faculty of broad clinical and research expertise at a level suitable for the concurrent development of outstanding clinical practice and research skills.
Candidates from outstanding clinical
residency training programs throughout the country and the world enter
the program every year with a variety of research skills and
backgrounds. Their training consists of two broad areas: clinical
training in the care of ambulatory and hospitalized patients with
infectious diseases; and research training focusing on the development
of skills necessary to become a successful independent investigator.
The first year of the program is devoted to the development of research
skills and the initiation of independent projects that will lead
ultimately to success in all areas of research, including independent
research design and conduct, publication, and procurement of
independent funding. Devotion of the entire first year to research,
with no inpatient or outpatient clinical responsibilities for trainees,
allows for more rapid development of research skills and independent
research programs leading to more productive conduct of research during
the clinical years of training, and a higher level of emphasis on
successful research scholarship during and following the training
period. Subsequently, inpatient and outpatient rotations are split
between the second and third years of training, with continued emphasis
on the parallel development of outstanding research skills and
independent accomplishment.
Online Application for Fellowship Training (ERAS)
