The past few months of infectious disease fellowship have been arduous. This is my new reality. I feel I’m doing all that I can to just keep afloat. I finished residency thinking “finally I can narrow down my breadth of knowledge”, but I have since realized that infectious diseases is still a very broad speciality […]
ID Consults Roster # 2
Second month ID consults roster. Saw about 30 new patients. What a relief from last month! Now you understand how I was able to go watch the Brazil-Mexico football friendly at Gillette stadium. 1. BIODEFENSE none 2. BONE/JOINT Escherichia coli & Proteus mirabilis right ischial osteomyelitis Citrobacter freundii sacral osteomyelitis Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus right […]
ID Consults Roster # 1
I have decided to keep an ID consults roster. Essentially a log of the inpatient consultations I have seen during my infectious diseases fellowship training. Here, I will break them down by diagnosis. It is possible for one patient to have several infectious diseases diagnoses. The number after the diagnosis indicates unique patients. For example, […]
Initial Thoughts on Being the ID Fellow
So, I have been the ID fellow on the wards doing clinical infectious diseases for over a month now. Transitioning from the leisurely pace of the microbiology lab was no joke. I probably dropped about 5-8 lbs in weight. I’m actually not sure since I haven’t weighed myself. I’m just hoping that it’s not closer […]
Wash Your Hands Before You Pick Your Nose!
Wash your hands before you pick your nose! Those were the parting words from our microbiology lab director. I started fellowship in the Microbiology lab. 3 weeks of bliss compared to what was to come. The goals were to learn the fundamentals of clinical microbiology, to become better consultants by being able to actually interpret […]
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