Transcript Template PPT - National University Hospital

ID Training at NUH
Research
Clinical Care
Education
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
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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!
Questions?
Research
Clinical Care
Education