Microbiology Fellowship

The fellowship is a one year program for physicians board certified or eligible in Clinical Pathology or Infectious Diseases that combines clinical, research and teaching responsibilities.  The fellow's primary responsibilities are at Yale-New Haven Hospital, with rotation through a Public Health Laboratory.

Environment
The Yale-New Haven Medical Center provides a rich clinical, educational, and research environment for fellowship training in medical microbiology.

The fellowship is centered at the Clinical Microbiology laboratory of Yale-New Haven Hospital. The laboratory provides state-of-the-art diagnostic microbiology services to the hospital's inpatient and outpatient care programs, which include active bone marrow, stem cell, and solid organ transplantation programs, HIV/AIDS care, cancer center, trauma center, and an active Tropical Medicine clinic.

Yale-New Haven Hospital is a primary clinical campus for Yale University School of Medicine. The medical school faculty has active research projects in many areas related to infectious disease. A partial list would include projects studying the pathogenesis of intracellular protozoal infections, molecular pathways of macrophage action, gene regulation of HIV infection and production of novel anti-HIV therapies, RNA metabolism in African trypanosomes, host-pathogen interactions in Salmonella infection, processing and presentation to T lymphocytes of antigens derived from intracellular pathogens, pathogenesis of pathogenesis of invasive fungal disease, and intracellular survival of Legionella, as well as many others. A wide variety of clinical research projects in infectious disease, especially protocols related to AIDS care, are ongoing at the medical center.

In addition to these duties, the fellow is involved in clinical conferences, journal clubs, research conferences, and other academic activities of the Department of Laboratory Medicine.

Other
A rotation in Public Health Microbiology is scheduled via the New York City Public Health Laboratory.

A further opportunity to gain teaching experience in the laboratory portion of the Medical Microbiology course of the medical school is also part of the fellowship.

It is expected that the fellow will pursue a basic or applied research project during the fellowship. Funding is available for travel to present research results at a national meeting.

Salary and benefits:
Salary is commensurate with the year of postgraduate training. The standard Yale University benefits package applies.

Scheduling:
The arrangement of the fellowship is flexible and can be arranged to best suit the needs of individual fellows.

Research interests:
Stephen C. Edberg, Ph.D., ABMM: Virulence factors of environmental microorganisms; microbial safety of drinking water

Marie Landry, M.D.: Rapid viral diagnostics, molecular diagnostics

John Greg Howe, Ph.D.: Molecular diagnostics

Sheldon Campbell, M.D., Ph.D.: Tuberculosis epidemiology, molecular diagnostics and epidemiology, medical education

Applications:
Applicants must be physicians who are board eligible or certified in either Pathology by American Board of Pathology, or in Medicine by American Board of Medical Specialties.  Graduates of our fellowship must be eligible for boards in Clinical Microbiology according to the American Board of Pathology (ABP) criteria.

Applications must be completed by February 1, however earlier completion is encouraged.  Fellowship application, letters of recommendation, and curriculum vitae should be sent to:

Microbiology Fellowship Director
Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, CB612
Yale-New Haven Hospital
New Haven, CT 06520

E-mail: MicroFellowship