The RWMC/BU Infectious Disease fellowship combines the best of academic learning and hands-on clinical experience, designed to insure your fellowship training is both academically stimulating and thoroughly enjoyable. We offer you a rare and beneficial setting: a small, quality program in a desirable location with a respected and accessible faculty.

Our primary goal is to educate broadly, involving the fellow in high-quality teaching activities in a nurturing, academic atmosphere. Faculty members bring their own extensive academic training to the program, directing fellows in the pursuit of understanding of pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of each disease. It is a tenet of our program to not only convey information through didactic lectures and clinical experience, but to ensure that fellows gain facility in using the latest literature to answer clinical questions, and to pose new questions as well. The patient load at RWMC is moderate, allowing fellows to read about each diseases and further research questions of management that may arise. This clinical setting is balanced with a more intensive patient care load during clinical rotations at Rhode Island Hospital (RIH).

The fellow's on call schedule is designed to maximize learning, yet allow for adequate rest and reading time. Fellows have 4 full days off per 4 week cycle, with two weekends per month on call for inpatient consults. Attending rounds generally go from the early afternoon to the early evening, including focused patient-oriented didactics and on-the-spot literature searches. Evening consults, although rare, provide an opportunity to evaluate true infectious disease emergencies.