OVMC Infectious Disease Manual
by Glenn E. Mathisen, M.D.
Infectious Diseases
Educational Goals & Overview
The overall purpose of this rotation is to train residents to competently care for hospitalized and clinic patients with a broad range of infectious diseases, and know when and how to appropriately consult or refer to specialty care.
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Infectious Disease Consult
Rotations on the Infectious Disease service will be between two and four weeks in length. In addition to the inpatient consultation service, residents will participate in the weekly ID/HIV clinic. Residents will be expected to attend the weekly UCLA Affiliated Infectious Disease case conference (Tuesday) and weekly OVMC intramural case conference (Friday), as well as make brief presentations at the Monday morning ID educational meeting. Supervision will be provided by the Infectious disease faculty, assisted by ID fellows, and the attendings in the specialty clinics.
Goals & Objectives
Before You Start
- On the day before your consult rotation, page the Infectious Diseases Fellow. Find out if you should get sign-out on any inpatient consults and what you should expect the first day of your rotation (when to round, where to meet, any lectures or clinic, etc.).
- To page with ID Fellow, log-in to AMION, go to paging, go to the Fellows drop-down menu, select ID Fellow.
When You Start
- Remember, ID has outpatient clinic on Thursday mornings and afternoons in Clinic C, and often you will start your morning in clinic and then evaluate consults later in the morning or afternoon.
Infectious Disease Clinic
ID clinic occurs every Thursday morning and afternoon in Clinic C.
Goals & Objectives
When You Start
ORCHID Clinic Resources:
- Donovan, Suzanne MD
- Jeng, Arthur MD
- Mathisen, Glenn MD
- Reed, Caitlin MD
- OVM PCC Resident
- OVM PCC PCC Urgent MD
- OVM Positive Care PC MD
- Mikhail, Nasser MD
- Singer, Elyse MD
- Valdes, Miguel MD
Important Information
- If you are seeing HIV patients in the afternoon, some patients may be scheduled to see both the ID-HIV specialist (that’s you) and another ID-subspecialist (e.g. ID-Neurology, ID-Psychiatry, ID-Endocrinology). Make sure the patient is evaluated by the other provider before discharging!