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ID Training at NUH

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)

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

ID training pathways & opportunities

• AST through JSTC

• ACGME-I ID Fellowship (from July 2013)

• PhD

• MCI

• MPH

• HMDP

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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