ID Training at NUH

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ID Training at NUH
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Why would one do ID? (over other medical
specialties)

• We mostly cure patients
• Diverse opportunities from bedside to
  international public health
• We are not organ specific and therefore maintain
  general skills
• We make good detectives
• Less vulnerable after hours as non-proceduralists
• Good flexibility for more or less work (including
  part time)

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Why ID may not be for you?

• No procedures less money
• Less of your own patients. more consulting,
  therefore less predictable
• Often juggling rather than fixed schedule

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ID training pathways opportunities

• AST through JSTC
• ACGME-I ID Fellowship (from July 2013)
• PhD
• MCI
• MPH
• HMDP

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ID niches

• Public health
• Infection control
• HIV
• Transplant ID
• Travel medicine
• OPAT
• Antibiotic stewardship
• MOH, WHO etc consulting
• Outbreaks
• PK/PD
• Specific organisms flu, MRSA

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• Global Health ID

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We are well protected!
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Questions?