Tracks
Our training allow you to focus on an area of specialization. This prepares you to complete fellowship with the experience need to move your career toward further training and/or specialization.
- Population Health Joint Training
We offer public health training beyond fellowship in conjunction with the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) Division of Public Health. Ryan Westergaard, MD, PhD, MPH, a faculty member in our division and the DHS Chief Medical Officer and State Epidemiologist for Communicable Diseases, supervises this training.
- Adult and Pediatric (Med-Peds) ID Joint Training
- Partnership with the UW Department of Pediatrics infectious disease fellowship
- Dual training for board certification in adult and pediatrics ID
- Physician-Scientist Training Program (PSTP)
Our department offers a dedicated physician-scientist training program in accordance with ABIM guidelines and requirements. Through this program, you can pursue research opportunities spanning the full range of infectious disease.
Pathways
- Antimicrobial Stewardship
Advance your skills in an IDSA Antimicrobial Stewardship Center of Excellence. Our division also has a very active stewardship research program and one of the first transplant stewardship programs in the nation.
Pathway highlights:
- Stewardship-specific curriculum
- Participation in weekly stewardship meetings
- VA stewardship rounds
- Specialized OPAT training elective
- Quality improvement and research projects in antimicrobial stewardship
- Community ID
Get expert training in general ID, with exposure to surgical ID, transplant ID, infection control and antimicrobial stewardship in the community setting.
Pathway highlights:
- Optional electives at a community hospital and long-term acute care hospital
- Optional rotations with hepatitis or addiction medicine clinics
- OPAT rotation
- Stewardship training
- Infection control training
- Global Health
Incorporate global health work into your future career through education, clinical care, and research engagement at the local and international level.
Pathway highlights:
- Quality improvement and research projects in global health
- 4-week combined clinical and research experience at our partner hospital in Rwanda
- Participation in global health pathway monthly conferences
- Option to earn tropical medicine certificate
Fellows can participate in our Global Health pathway and Health Equity pathway.
- HIV
Gain advanced clinical experience with patients living with HIV. Partner with the Midwest AIDS Training and Education Center, a publicly funded center that provides clinical training and support to health care professionals.
Pathway highlights:
- HIV-specific curriculum
- HIV acute care rotation (for all fellows)
- HIV online certification modules (for all fellows)
- Additional elective time in HIV medicine at UW Health or with community partners
- Weekly HIV treaters meeting
- Quality improvement and research projects in HIV care
- Hepatitis/co-infection clinical experiences
- HIV prevention clinical experience
- Optional addiction medicine elective
- Infection Control
Train with experts in the internationally recognized UW Health Infection Control Program. UW Health has also received the US Department of Health and Human Services' Partnership in Prevention award, and has been recognized by the Association of Professionals in Infection and SHEA for innovations in prevention of hospital-acquired infections.
Pathway highlights:
- Infection-control–specific curriculum
- Participation in monthly infection control conference
- Quality improvement and research projects in infection control
- Participate in VA infection control committee
- SHEA online course in infection control
- Outbreak investigations
- Option to earn MPH, MS epidemiology in advanced years of fellowship
- Medical Education
Focus your training to join the next generation of medical educators.
Pathway highlights:
- “Education Fellow” helps design relevant and high-yield fellowship curriculum, plus content for our fellow development series
- Participate in Fellows as Medical Educators (FAME) track
- Participate in education quality improvement and research projects
- Get high-quality feedback on your teaching performance
- Option to earn an MS in education from highly rated UW-Madison School of Education during advanced years of training
- Population Health
Train with Dr. Ryan Westergaard, the chief medical officer and state epidemiologist for communicable diseases at the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS). In the spirit of the Wisconsin Idea, partner with the Wisconsin DHS to leverage knowledge and resources to benefit the entire state.
Pathway highlights:
- Population heath and biostatistics curriculum
- Quality improvement and research projects in population health
- Rotate with the Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene
- Partner with the University of Wisconsin Health Innovations Program
- Option to earn MPH during advanced training years
- Surgical ID
Get clinical experience in diagnosing and treating surgical site infections, develop protocols for infection prevention and participate in surgical ID quality improvement and research.
Pathway highlights:
- Surgical ID-specific curriculum
- Additional elective time in surgical infectious diseases
- Monthly multidisciplinary wound clinic
- Multidisciplinary burn/wound conference every other month
- Quality improvement and research projects in surgical infectious diseases
- Optional rotations in Burns, Plastics or Podiatry
- Transplant ID
Develop expertise that few in the country have during your two-year fellowship. UW Health has a large, internationally recognized transplant program. Our division has a very active transplant ID research program and one of the first transplant stewardship programs in the nation.
Pathway highlights:
- Transplant ID-specific curriculum
- Additional elective time in transplant infectious disease
- Elective pre-transplant clinics
- Weekly transplant ID conference
- Quality improvement and research projects in transplant ID
- Optional rotations with Transplant Medicine, Hematology or ICU
Our pathway program allows you to select an area—or set of areas—to focus your individualized training path. We offer curricula and unique opportunities through our division and collaborators for a personalized training experience.
Fellows who select and participate in a pathway(s) will graduate with a distinction in that field.