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Training Conferences

• Attending Rounds – Daily rounds by a member of the full-time faculty with fellows, residents and medical students.
• Infectious Diseases Clinical Conference – Weekly conference which is run by the ID fellows and residents in Medicine and Pediatrics. Two cases are discussed in detail each week. Topics in clinical microbiology, pharmacology and infection control are also presented.
• HIV Conference – Weekly conference on clinical and laboratory aspects of HIV infection.
• City-Wide ID Conference – Monthly conference at which outstanding cases are presented from each of the hospitals in Rochester.
• ID Journal Club – Weekly rotating review of all clinically relevant journals in infectious diseases. Both faculty and fellows participate.
• ID Research Conference – Weekly presentation of ongoing research by fellows and faculty.
• Hospital Epidemiology Series – Seminars presented by the Infection Control program. Integrated into ID Clinical Conference and ID Seminar Series.
• ID Seminar Series – Weekly seminars covering core topics in Infectious Disease, including antibiotics, pharmacokinetics, biostatistics, epidemiology, research design, vaccines, travel medicine, parasitology, immunology, HIV, and major disease entities. Presented by faculty.
• Microbiology Lab Rounds – Presentation and discussion of interesting cases in the lab; 3 afternoons per week.
• Formal Courses – Fellows may attend Microbiology, Virology, Immunology, Biostatistics, Epidemiology and other courses offered by the School of Medicine.