Applying for Fellowship Training

Applications will be accepted only through the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS). It will be open to residents beginning each July. The deadline for applications considered for the 2015-2016 year is 8/31/2014.

Our program will require the following items from ap-plicants:

Personal Statement

Medical School Transcripts and Board Scores

Curriculum Vitae

Letter from your current program director

Three other letters of recommendation

The University of Utah is an EEO/AA employer and encourages applications from women and minorities.

The Location

• Family friendly city

• Excellent restaurants

• Cultural activities - symphony, ballet, opera, profes-sional theatre, summer outdoor concerts, and the Sundance Film Festival

• University athletics – member of the PAC-12, nation-ally ranked football, basketball, gymnastics

• Professional basketball and soccer

• Recreation oriented community, county supported recreation centers

• Biking – bike paths, mountain biking, road biking in spectacular scenery

• Skiing – world class skiing, locals discounts, opportuni-ties for kids to ski, snowboard, ski jump, etc.

• Winter sports – luge, bobsled, speed skating, figure skating, snowshoeing, cross country skiing

• 5 national parks in Utah, easy for a weekend away

• Water sports – water skiing, canoeing, kayaking, river rafting

• Hiking, camping, backpacking for all levels/abilities

• International airport with many direct flights to coastal cities

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Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship

The Pediatric Infectious Diseases fellowship at the University of Utah is structured to provide highly moti-vated trainees with a comprehensive, rigorous expo-sure to infectious diseases of infants, children, and adolescents and prepare them for academic careers. The Division's eight faculty members are committed to outstanding clinical care, teaching and to performing research that advances the field of infectious disease. The clinical opportunities in our fellowship program are outstanding. Primary Children's Hospital (PCH) is a 289 bed pediatric hospital that serves both as the community hospital for Salt Lake City and northern Utah and as a referral center for southern Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, and Montana. PCH is the main site for clinical training and has a busy and varied clinical service. Fellows also receive training in clinical microbiology, molecular diagnostics, antibiotic stewardship, HIV medicine and hospital epidemiology.

visit our website at

http://medicine.utah.edu/pediatrics/infectious_disease/fellowship.php

OUR PROGRAM Our fellows are ensured funding for all 3 years. First year fellows spend 5-6 months on the inpatient consult service. Second and third year fellows spend 3-4 months. Additionally, fellows regularly participate in out-patient clinics including general ID, HIV care, transplant medicine, TB clinic, immunology clinic and travel medi-cine. The remainder of the fellowship focuses on re-search experiences. Each trainee is paired with a primary mentor and a research mentoring committee. Trainees have opportunities for both clinical and bench research. The research interests of the faculty include: the epidemiology and diagnosis of respiratory infections including bacterial pneumonia, influenza and other viruses; molecular diagnostics; outcomes research; antimicrobial steward-ship; hospital-acquired infections; and infections in the immune-compromised host. In addition to the Division faculty, fellows can work with clinical microbiologists and molecular pathologists at the Associated Regional University Pathologists (ARUP) Laboratories. ARUP is one of the nation's premier reference laboratories and is located on the research campus of the University of Utah. All trainees participate in a fellows training course offered by the Department of Pediatrics that includes training in study design, statistics, grant preparation, scientific writing, scientific lecturing and research ethics.

Education

Our educational conferences are designed to supplement the superb training our fellows receive in the clinical Setting. We have 2 division conferences each week, one focusing on clinical care and the other focusing on research. We have regular didactic sessions including a weekly conference jointly with the adult infectious diseases division at the University of Utah. Fellows have the opportunity to travel to professional meetings including IDWeek and the Pediatric Academic Societies to both present research and participate in the educational activities provided at these meetings. Our fellows have the opportunity to pursue additional training including a master’s degree in clinical investiga-tion, clinical pharmacology or advanced training in quality improvement.

The Faculty

The Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases in-cludes 10 full-time faculty members including several with national leadership positions: • Current RedBook Chair • Member of the IDSA Diagnostics Task Force • Member of the CDC Board of Scientific

Counselors • Chair of the IDSA Influenza Guideline Committee • Steering Committee on Antimicrobial Stewardship

for PIDS • IDSA Guideline Committee on Outpatient

Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy

Research

Our division has a broad range of research activities including funded grants from the NIH, CDC and industry. The following are areas of major research activity, more detail available on the division website: -Antimicrobial Stewardship -Clinical Pharmacology -Epidemiology of Invasive Bacterial Infections -Influenza and RSV -Febrile Infants -Molecular Diagnostics -Pneumococcal Diseases -Pneumonia