Department of Internal Medicine
Fellowship Training in Infectious Diseases
Jack T. Stapleton, M.D., Professor and Division Director
Daniel Diekema, M.D., M.S., Clinical Associate Professor
Medicine and Pathology
and Fellowship Training Program Director
The Division of Infectious Diseases at The University of Iowa is a division with a broad base of expertise in both clinical and research aspects of infectious diseases. A wide variety of interesting and complex infectious disease problems are encountered in a number of general medical and surgical as well as specialized inpatient areas. Consults are seen in both university and VA hospital settings. All fellows maintain both ID and Virology continuity clinics throughout their fellowship.
The training program is designed to provide fellows with strong clinical and research foundations in infectious diseases. We aim to prepare fellows for careers in research, academic clinical teaching and/or patient care. The fellowship curriculum is designed so that the first year is devoted to clinical rotations. The second year will be individualized to career goals.
Additional features that contribute to the strength of the training program include:
- State-of-the-art research conducted at the bedside and at the laboratory bench.
- A hospital epidemiology program that offers trainees an in-depth experience in mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance; prevention of nosocomial infections; vaccine compliance and outcomes research.
- A close relationship with the routine and special diagnostic microbiology laboratories, resulting in opportunities for specialized training. The clinical microbiology laboratory provides state-of-the-art methodologies in diagnostic microbiology and antimicrobial susceptibility testing.
- A master's degree program in The University of Iowa College of Public
Health open to fellows who want formal training in epidemiology and biostatistics.
A regular weekly schedule of clinical conferences and research seminars, with frequent visits by leading infectious disease and other biomedical investigators from other institutions. - Regular medical student and internal medicine resident rotation through the clinical service.
An NIH interdisciplinary Infectious Diseases Training Grant funded since 1988 provides stipends for candidates who choose a career path in research and related basic science coursework.
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For further information about the program, please contact daniel-diekema@uiowa.edu.