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.

Adult and Pediatric (Med-Peds) ID Joint Training
  • We work very closely with our colleagues to UW Department of Pediatrics infectious disease fellowship to offer a truly integrated approach to your clinical training and academic development. We support mentorship, scholarship, and professional development that supports your unique skillset as a med-peds physician.
  • 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

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.

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
Global Health

We offer fully funded global health training and experience for future ID doctors aiming to provide care for vulnerable populations around the world.

Pathway highlights:

  • Quality improvement and research projects in global health​
  • Minimum 2-week combined clinical and research experience at our partner hospital in Rwanda
  • Participation in global health pathway monthly conferences
  • Support to complete the Clinical Tropical Medicine & Online Global Health Curriculum through the University of Minnesota (UMN), which when combined with sufficient international experience, allows you to sit for the CTropMed® exam.

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
  • Monthly 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

Fellows interested in public health have the opportunity to work directly with Ryan Westergaard, MD, PhD, MPH, professor, Infectious Disease, and Chief Medical Officer and State Epidemiologist for Communicable Disease, on statewide initiatives. 

Fellows will spend time at the Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene and can leverage our partnerships with the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) and Madison-Dane County Public Health for research and quality improvement. 

An MPH is available for those interested in an additional training year.

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 burn surgery, plastic surgery, 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 critical care medicine

This pathway can also be combined with our one-year TID fellowship for further experience.