Infectious Disease - Program Info

The Infectious Disease Fellowship Program at Einstein Medical Center is a two-year ACGME accredited program accepting one fellow per year. The goal of the Infectious Disease Fellowship Program is to provide excellent training in the science and practice of Infectious Diseases through mentored relationships involving progressive independence for the fellow.  To accomplish this goal, the program provides training through classroom instruction, inpatient consultations, and ambulatory clinics.  Fellows develop clinical and intellectual expertise in the diagnosis and management of complicated infectious diseases in inpatient and outpatient settings. 

The Division of Infectious Disease currently has six full-time faculty members. In addition,  a HIV-Board Certified physician provides formal instruction and clinical supervision in HIV medicine.  Three full-time nurse practitioners, four full-time infection preventionists, and a Pharm D specialist in anti-infection therapy work closely with the fellows and faculty.

The program provides its fellows with an outstanding opportunity to learn the practice of infectious disease. Einstein has extremely busy inpatient and outpatient services, thriving programs in liver and kidney transplantation, a comprehensive cancer center, a Level I Trauma Center, first-rate critical care units, and the largest Emergency Department in Philadelphia (in excess of 70,000 visits annually).  Training in the care of people with AIDS, in a Title III funded, complete HIV care clinic, inpatient consultations at Einstein’s skilled nursing facility, a pediatric elective opportunity at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, and participation in clinical trials of anti-infective agents round out the experience.