Download ID goals and objectives

Rotation Specific Goals and Learning Objectives
Infectious Disease Rotation
Patient Care and Procedural Skills
1. The resident will communicate efficiently and effectively with patients, families and other
health care personnel while on the DH consult service
2. The resident will perform thorough evaluations, examination of patients, and data
gathering for patients with suspected infectious diseases.
3. The resident will be able to communicate basic important aspects of infectious disease
diagnosis and management as it relates to course of expected infection, antibiotic side
effects, risk/benefit of antibiotic therapy, and expected outcomes.
4. The resident will develop the ability to effectively evaluate and treat patients with
complex infections in a variety of patients including immune compromised HIV+ patients
and post-surgical patients.
5. The resident will demonstrate humanistic qualities in interactions with patients and their
families.
Medical knowledge
1. The resident will be able to develop a differential diagnosis of various infectious diseases
with a focus on changes in likelihood in different hosts.
2. The resident will gain knowledge of antimicrobial agents, methodologies for testing
susceptibility, and acquire experience in interpretive reading of susceptibility results and
application to patient care
3. Understand the infectious diseases needs of critically ill patients
Practice-based learning and improvement
1. The resident will utilize pertinent literature related to infectious diseases
2. The resident will utilize information technology, radiology studies, pertinent laboratory
studies, and electronic medical records to evaluate and diagnose infectious diseases and
make treatment recommendations.
3. The resident will progressively demonstrate skill in interacting with the laboratory,
including use of laboratory tests, stain interpretation, and specialized studies by request.
4. The resident will present cases and literature summaries to faculty and peers at case
conference and include pertinent history, physical, studies, and recommendations.
Interpersonal and communication skills
1. The resident will demonstrate excellent communication skills with patients and families.
2. The resident will learn the role of communication with consulting physicians in different
subspecialties and ancillary staff while working together as a cohesive team to care for
patients with infectious diseases.
3. The resident will demonstrate leadership skills while working with other learners to
educate them on the diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases.
Professionalism
1. The resident will demonstrate the ability to interact with referring providers, patients,
family members and other health care team members in an ethical, professional,
compassionate manner.
2. The resident will exhibit appropriate discretion when discussing potentially sensitive
infectious disease issues in front of patients and/or family members
3. Participate and present at case conference and journal clubs
4. Demonstrate a commitment to ethical, selfless practices with regard to patient care.
5. The resident will develop an appreciation for and sensitivity to a diverse patients and
workforce populations with respect to age, race, culture, gender, gender identity,
immigrant status, and other important features of patient diversity.
6. The resident will function as team leader in health care environment.
Systems-based practice
1. The resident will demonstrate the ability to practice cost-effective patient care, while not
compromising quality. Special attention should be paid to studies ordered to assess
infectious disease and treatment recommendations.
2. The resident will act as anti-microbial stewards while practicing on the ID Consult service
and learn to apply stewardship to everyday antimicrobial use.
3. The resident will serve as an advocate for patients, families and patient care.
4. The resident will understand the infectious diseases needs of a public hospital/ public
health clinic population.
5. Participate and lead with the allocation and provision of health care resources to ensure
continuity of care from the hospital to the outpatient care arena.
6. Learn the appropriate utilization of Out-Patient Antimicrobial Therapy for selected
patient population and the procedure for arranging and follow up of OPAT care for
patients.