The Saul Krugman Fellowship Program in Infectious Diseases has been developed to prepare pediatricians for an academic career in Infectious Diseases and to qualify them for subspecialty boards in Pediatric Infectious Diseases.
The NYU Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases offers fellowship training to qualified graduates of a pediatric residency program with the prime purpose of producing individuals capable of contributing to an academic infectious disease section.
The fellowship is three years in duration with about half the time devoted to clinical infectious disease training and the remainder to research, both bench-related laboratory experience and clinical studies.
Fellows are exposed to the various research programs ongoing in the division as well as a lecture program initiated by the NYU General Clinical Research Center aimed at developing clinical research skills.
Intensive inpatient clinical training takes place during the first year at Bellevue and Tisch Hospitals, which provides exposure to a large and broad scope of general, urban, international and tertiary Infectious Diseases. Outpatient training occurs at Bellevue Hospital and involves participation in a continuity-care comprehensive HIV clinic and rotations through specialty clinics in viral hepatitis, tuberculosis and immunodeficiency during the second and third year.
Formal training in clinical and diagnostic microbiology, virology and immunology as well as epidemiology, biostatistics, research design, grant writing and infection control are provided in the first year. The second and third years of training are primarily devoted to laboratory-based or clinical research supervised by a faculty committee. Research opportunities extend to other laboratories within the Medical School and collaborating institutions.
