Infectious Disease Fellowship Program

Thank you for your interest in the Infectious Diseases Fellowship at Baystate Medical Center-Tufts University School of Medicine. The fellowship has been continuously operative since l985. This clinically-oriented, fellow-friendly program is available to those who have completed a three-year ACGME accredited program in internal medicine or a medicine/pediatric program. The purpose of the program is to provide fellows with comprehensive training in the practice of infectious diseases. To achieve this goal, fellows are trained by eleven readily-accessible faculty in clinical infectious diseases, microbiology (bacteriology, mycology, mycobacteriology, serology, and virology), clinical research, and infection control/hospital epidemiology. For a narrative summary of the fellowship, go to http://academics.bhs.org/fellowship/infectious_disease_fellowship.

Fellowship Director: Eric V. Granowitz, MD

Fellowship Coordinator: Pauline Blair email: pauline.blair@bhs.org phone: 413-794-5376

Program & Department Statistics

• Length of fellowship: 2 years
• Number of fellows per year: 1
• Number of Faculty: 11

Baystate Statistics

• Number of hospital beds:  653
• Inpatient ID consults: 125 per month | Fellows average 50 new consults per month when on inpatient consult service
• Number of residency programs: 10
• Number of fellowship programs:  16

Fellow Benefits & Facilities

• Salary -  PG4:  $56,200  PG5: $58,700
• 4 weeks vacation/year, meal subsidy, free parking
• Disability/Malpractice/Health/Life Insurance
• First and second year fellows share their own office
• Each fellow has his/her own computer
• Comprehensive electronic medical record
• Well-supplied, on-campus hospital library with 8 librarians and robust e-medicine resources (Up-to-Date, Ovid, etc.)
• Access to Tufts on-line library

Curriculum Information (Curriculum is modified to meet each Fellow's individual needs.)

• PG4: adult consultations (6 months); research (3 months); pediatric consultations (1 month); microbiology/infection control (1 month); multispecialty month (1 month)
• PG5: adult consultations (5 months); research (4 months); microbiology (1 month); transplantation (1 month); multispecialty month (1 month)

• Weekly Conferences: core curriculum series, microbiology
• Monthly Conferences: case presentations, fellows' presentations, journal club, HIV

Published: July 2008