The Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship Training Program at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital provides an excellent opportunity for a broad-based, comprehensive clinical and research experience. The program lasts for three years and is designed to prepare the fellow for an academic career. It is our philosophy that investigative and clinical skills acquired during training should distinguish the fellow as highly competitive for research funding and outstanding in clinical competence. We strive for collegiality in a friendly, intellectually curious atmosphere. Only those applicants who have the potential to fulfill all these goals are accepted into the program.
Responsibilities on the clinical service include evaluation and management of inpatients in Vanderbilt Children's Hospital, as well as outpatient consultations in the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Clinic, the Pediatric HIV clinic, and the Pediatric Emergency Department. Fellows are expected to spend approximately one year of the three year training program in clinical training. All clinical activities are directly supervised by one-on-one interaction with the attending staff. Fellows attend and are asked to contribute to Grand Rounds, Morning Report, Chief Resident's Conference, and various research conferences. A weekly pediatric ID conference, moderated by the fellow on service, adds to the clinical experience.
Fellows will have a concentrated, two-three year research experience. Projects may include bench, clinical, or translational research endeavors and may be conducted within the Division or in collaboration with other clinical or basic science departments at Vanderbilt. The Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases is fully committed to basic laboratory and clinical research. The goal of the two-three year research experience is to fully enable the fellow to compete for research funding at the junior faculty level (Clinical Investigator Award, First Award, Industry/Scholar Award, etc.). Fellows are expected to present their work at national meetings and publish their work.
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