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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.