Education Clinical Care Research ID Training at NUH
Why would one do ID? (over other medical specialties) We mostly cure patients Diverse opportunities from bedside to international public health We are not organ specific and therefore maintain general skills We make good detectives Less vulnerable after hours as non-proceduralists Good flexibility for more or less work (including part time)
Why ID may not be for you? No procedures = less money Less of “your own” patients…. more consulting, therefore less predictable Often juggling rather than fixed schedule
ID training pathways & opportunities AST through JSTC ACGME-I ID Fellowship (from July 2013) PhD MCI MPH HMDP
ID niches Public health Infection control HIV Transplant ID Travel medicine OPAT Antibiotic stewardship MOH, WHO etc consulting Outbreaks PK/PD Specific organisms… flu, MRSA
Global Health & ID
We are well protected!
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