Overview

The residents will rotate at Parkland Health & Hospital System (PHHS) and Children’s Medical Center (CMC) while on the microbiology service. They will meet daily with the PHHS microbiology faculty to discuss interesting cases, send out requests and review smears. In addition, clinical microbiology topics including bacteriology, mycology, mycobacteriology, virology and parasitology will be covered through reading assignments, tutorials, lectures, discussions of related cases and reviews of slide sets. Residents are also expected to spend time on laboratory work stations including routine aerobic cultures, sterile site cultures, urine cultures, anaerobic cultures, antimicrobial susceptibility testing, mycology, mycobacteriology, parasitology, pediatric microbiology and virology at PHHS and CMC. The residents will participate in weekly infectious diseases plate rounds organized by the microbiology faculty. Additionally, they will attend bi-weekly infectious diseases citywide conference, weekly infectious diseases patient follow-up rounds (as their own Pathology lecture series permits) and infectious diseases didactic lectures. They may at their own discretion attend the infectious diseases virology and HIV journal clubs, and the intermittent invited lecturers for the infectious diseases division. Residents will attend weekly clinical pathology lectures, which include a biannual microbiology lecture series and a weekly clinical pathology conference at which time residents will discuss call issues and present cases including patients with infectious diseases. They will also attend bimonthly slide unknown sessions covering a wide variety of infectious agents. Residents will have the opportunity to attend weekly microbiology laboratory management meetings, and to present microbiology cases to the medical technologists and microbiology staff. Other ad hoc activities, to which the residents will be invited, include lectures by visiting scientists, meetings of microbiology-oriented organizations, demonstrations of equipment or procedures by commercial vendors and frequent teleconferences on microbiologic topics.

FACULTY:

• Paul M. Southern, MD, DTM&H (Infectious Diseases, Microbiology, Tropical Medicine)
• Rita M. Gander, PhD (Microbiology )
• Dominick Cavuoti, DO (Microbiology, Surgical Pathology, Cytopathology)
• Robin H. Amirkhan, MD (Veterans Affairs Medical Center)
• Paula Revell, Ph.D. (Microbiology and Pediatric Microbiology)

DURATION: 2 months

PREREQUISITES:

None, except MD or DO degree from an accredited institution meeting ACGME guidelines.

OBJECTIVES

Patient Care

Medical Knowledge

Practice-based Learning

Interpersonal and Communications Skills

Professionalism

Systems-based Practice

CONFERENCES

• Clinical Pathology Lecture Series
• Clinical Pathology Conference/Rounds
• Clinical Microbiology Unknowns Sessions
• Infectious Diseases Plate/Microscopy rounds
• Citywide Infectious Diseases Conference
• Infectious Diseases Patient Follow-up Conference (if not in conflict with core lecture series)
• Infectious Diseases Didactic Conference
• Infectious Diseases (Virology, HIV) Journal Club (optional)
• Clinical Microbiology Management Meeting

BASIC READING

“Koneman’s Color Atlas and Textbook of Diagnostic Microbiology”, Sixth Edition, Winn, Allen, Janda, Koneman, Procop, Schreckenberger and Woods, Editors, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006