The Traditional/Research Track in the ID Fellowship program at Stanford offers outstanding clinical training and research opportunities for physicians who wish to specialize in infectious diseases. This fellowship is an ACGME-accredited program for which the primary goal is to prepare trainees for an academic career in basic science, clinical research, public health, epidemiology, industry, and others.

First Year: Clinical Training

    The first year of the training program is dedicated to providing clinical exposure to a broad spectrum of infectious diseases.  Fellows spend the majority of the year rotating through the infectious diseases consult services at our program’s three hospitals under the supervision of an attending physician.  These services include General ID at all three hospitals, the Transplant ID services at Stanford (which specialize in the care of patients with malignancies, solid-organ transplants, and hematopoietic cell transplants), ICU-ID at Stanford, and others.  Fellows also spend a month learning fundamental aspects of microbiology and virology in the clinical laboratory, a month rotating through subspecialty outpatient ID clinics, and training in antimicrobial stewardship / hospital epidemiology at Stanford.

    A continuity clinic is maintained one half-day per week throughout the first two years of training in the program: the first year in General Infectious Diseases clinic, and the second year in HIV clinic.  Fellows also participate in weekly didactic and research conferences.

    Dr. Brian Blackburn, Co-director of the ID fellowship training program, meets with each first-year fellow regularly regarding their progress and advises them regarding their clinical and research training.

Second and Third Year (and Beyond): Research

    Beginning in the second year, fellows spend the majority of their time involved in research activities. Our division offers an outstanding array of research opportunities in basic, clinical, epidemiologic, or translational science supported by NIH training grants and other funding resources.  This is done under the supervision of a mentor(s) who can be chosen from among the diverse and outstanding faculty within the Division of Infectious Diseases.  We also encourage fellows to choose a mentor from any Department at Stanford including the Department of Medicine, Pediatrics (Division of Infectious Diseases), the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, other faculty in the School of Medicine, and the larger Stanford University community (outside of the medical school).         

    Dr. Lucy Tompkins, Co-director of the ID fellowship training program, is responsible for facilitating each fellow’s research training and selection of mentors beginning in the first year of the program.  She meets with each fellow in the program regularly to assist and advise fellows regarding their progress and facilitates their opportunities for research support.  Each fellow is encouraged to select a faculty advisory panel to meet with them regularly to review and facilitate their research progress.

    Fellows typically spend three to six years as postdoctoral fellows in the program.  The division has an outstanding record of success in preparing and placing its trainees in prestigious faculty positions, public health careers, and industry.

    For more information about the Division of Infectious Diseases research labs and programs, please visit the Research page. 

    The Clinician Educator (CE) Track in the ID Fellowship program at Stanford offers training and educational opportunities to physicians who wish to specialize in the clinical practice and education of infectious diseases.  Our clinical fellowship combines clinical and teaching experiences into an experience tailored towards a clinical career in an academic environment.  The primary goals of the program are to train: (1) outstanding clinicians who will be adept at managing infectious diseases; and (2) future academic clinical educators.

First Year

    The first year of the CE Track is similar to the first year in the Research Track of our program, and is dedicated to providing clinical exposure to a broad spectrum of infectious diseases. Fellows spend the majority of the year rotating through the infectious diseases consult services at our program’s three hospitals under the supervision of an attending physician.  These services include General ID at all three hospitals, the Transplant ID services at Stanford (which specialize in the care of patients with malignancies, solid-organ transplants, and hematopoietic cell transplants), ICU-ID at Stanford, and others.  Fellows also spend a month learning fundamental aspects of microbiology and virology in the clinical laboratory, a month rotating through subspecialty outpatient ID clinics, and training in antimicrobial stewardship / hospital epidemiology at Stanford.

Second Year

    The second year of the CE Track includes time on clinical services as well as other activities geared towards training outstanding academic clinician-educators.  Elective opportunities include potential experiences in pediatric infectious diseases, hematopoietic cell transplantation, infection control, antimicrobial stewardship, and/or outpatient elective ID experiences including travel/tropical medicine clinic, orthopedic ID clinic, TB clinic, viral hepatitis clinic, immunocompromised host ID clinic and STD clinic, among others.

    A continuity clinic is maintained one half-day per week throughout the first two years of training in the program: the first year in General Infectious Diseases clinic, and the second year in HIV clinic.  Fellows also participate in weekly didactic and research conferences.

    In addition to clinical work, CE fellows participate in several scholarly activities, as chosen by the individual fellow.  A sampling of opportunities includes:

·   Antibiotic stewardship programs and other initiatives through the Stanford Hospital Infection Control Department
·   Publication of case reports, case series, and/or book chapters
·   Formal training in medical education
·   Participation in teaching activities for fellows, internal medicine housestaff, and/or medical students
·   Development of protocols in conjunction with ID faculty for use by our division or in collaboration with other consulting divisions
·   Developing quality improvement projects

    The program is supportive of CE Track fellows’ specific learning goals and aims to adapt the second year of the program to meet the needs of the individual fellow.

First Year

       The first year of the ASP Track is similar to the first year in the other fellowship tracks of our program, and is dedicated to providing clinical exposure to a broad spectrum of infectious diseases. Fellows spend the majority of the year rotating through the infectious diseases consult services at our program’s three hospitals under the supervision of an attending physician.  These services include General ID at all three hospitals, the Transplant ID services at Stanford (which specialize in the care of patients with malignancies, solid-organ transplants, and hematopoietic cell transplants), ICU-ID at Stanford, and others.  Fellows also spend a month learning fundamental aspects of microbiology and virology in the clinical laboratory, a month rotating through subspecialty outpatient ID clinics, and training in antimicrobial stewardship / hospital epidemiology at Stanford.

Second Year

        The second year of the ASP Track includes a small amount of time on clinical services, with at least 80% of the year dedicated to antimicrobial stewardship.  Under the guidance of Stanford’s world-class ASP program, this will include time on daily stewardship rounds, implementation of hospital-based projects in ASP and quality improvement, and long-term, longitudinal projects that we anticipate would result in publications and conference presentations.  Graduates of this track will become experts in ASP and well equipped to lead antimicrobial stewardship programs at hospitals nationally.

A continuity clinic is maintained one half-day per week throughout the first two years of training in the program: the first year in General Infectious Diseases clinic, and the second year in HIV clinic.  Fellows also participate in weekly didactic and research conferences.

First Year: Clinical Training

       The first year of the HE/IPC Track is similar to the first year in the other fellowship tracks of our program, and is dedicated to providing clinical exposure to a broad spectrum of infectious diseases. Fellows spend the majority of the year rotating through the infectious diseases consult services at our program’s three hospitals under the supervision of an attending physician.  These services include General ID at all three hospitals, the Transplant ID services at Stanford (which specialize in the care of patients with malignancies, solid-organ transplants, and hematopoietic cell transplants), ICU-ID at Stanford, and others.  Fellows also spend a month learning fundamental aspects of microbiology and virology in the clinical laboratory, a month rotating through subspecialty outpatient ID clinics, and training in antimicrobial stewardship / hospital epidemiology at Stanford.

Second Year

        The second year of the HE/IPC Track includes a small amount of time on clinical services, with at least 80% of the year dedicated to hospital epidemiology / infection prevention & control.  Under the guidance of Stanford’s world-class HE/IPC program, this will include time on daily HE/IPC rounds, participation in task forces and outbreak investigations, attendance at several regular HE/IPC hospital meetings, and long-term, longitudinal projects that we anticipate would result in publications and conference presentations.  Graduates of this track will become experts in HE/IPC and well equipped to lead such programs at hospitals nationally.

A continuity clinic is maintained one half-day per week throughout the first two years of training in the program: the first year in General Infectious Diseases clinic, and the second year in HIV clinic.  Fellows also participate in weekly didactic and research conferences.

Stanford will be one of the sites for the IDSA-sponsored EIS / ID fellowship joint program.  Prospective fellows will both apply to CDC for the EIS program, and apply to / go through the ID fellowship recruitment and match process (we will create a new program track for this).  Fellows selected will then matriculate into a program that is four years in length, and in which they are jointly already a part of both an ID fellowship and EIS.  We will begin recruiting for such fellows in the Summer / Fall of 2023, and they would start fellowship in July 2024.  The first two years of fellowship will be at Stanford, and then the 3^rd and 4^th years would be with CDC / EIS.  The EIS years could be spent locally with CDPH (or SCCDPH) or fellows could choose to go to a center-based position in Atlanta (or elsewhere).  More information is available about this program here Joint ID/EIS Fellowship - New Opportunity! (idsociety.org)

   The ID/CC track is a 3-year program that provides two years of ID fellowship training (similar to the two years described above for CE Track fellows) followed by one year of Critical Care medicine.  Upon successful completion of both training programs, the fellow is Board eligible in Infectious Diseases and in Critical Care medicine. 

    Although this track is primarily designed for those who are interested in becoming Clinician Educators, Research Track fellows are also eligible to apply.  Fellows who let us know that they are interested in this joint experience will have their applications reviewed by both the ID and CCM programs, and for qualified candidates, interviews arranged with both ID and CCM faculty.

Please note, there is not a specific track for this in ERAS. You will apply to the track you wish to complete during the Infectious Diseases fellowship, e.g. CE, HE/IPC, ASP, Research.