Core Clinical Curriculum

The core clinical curriculum offered by any program should be 12 months in duration. Required content includes:

	Required	Ideal
ID Consults	250 consults with fellow participation over the entire training period	250 consults with fellow participation over the entire training period
Epidemiology	Infection control committee, or formal 24-hour course, or SHEA course or equivalent, or 1-month rotation	28-hour course, didactic and practical (equivalent to SHEA course), or 1-month rotation
Microbiology	Practical experience in clinical microbiology	Clinical Microbiology (bacteriology, mycology, virology, parasitology, antibiotic susceptibility testing), 1 month or 120 hours
Sexually Transmitted Diseases	Expertise required	2 1/2 to 3-day course (equivalent to CDC course or clinical training)
Transplant/Immunocompromised hosts	Trainees should have solid organ and bone marrow transplant experience	Transplant (bone marrow and solid organ): 20 patients Immunocompromised hosts: 20 new patients
Continuity Clinic	18 months; must have HIV patients	10% time (average 1/2 day per week) for 24 months. Follow 20 new HIV patients
Didactic	Bioethics course; lecture series desirable	Ethics, biostatistics
Conferences	2 hours of conferences per week, including ID case conference	2 hours of conference per week, including ID case conference with 60% documented attendance over 24 months
HIV inpatient experience	Required	Required

In addition, the following core competancies are recommended: