Welcome to the Walter Reed Army Medical Center - Inectious Disease Fellowship

The National Capital Consortium Infectious Disease Fellowship

Introduction
The National Capital Consortium Infectious Disease Fellowship has a long and storied history. The Walter Reed Army Medical Center Infectious Disease Fellowship graduated its first fellow in 1971, and the Bethesda National Naval Fellowship graduated its first fellow in 1980. The two programs were combined as the National Capital Consortium Infectious Disease Fellowship in 1996. The Fellowship is responsible for training infectious disease specialists who will graduate to fill many roles in the military, to include laboratory research, clinical research, clinical medicine, medical education, administration and policy, and operational medicine.

Clinical training is done at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, National Naval Medical Center, George Washington University, National Children's' Hospital, Washington Hospital Center, and the Prince George County Health Department. Additional clinical rotations are available and include rotations at the National Institutes of Health and the Baltimore Shock-Trauma Unit. In addition to assigned and elective clinical rotations, all fellows have a continuity clinic one half day a week. These clinics are multi-disciplinary with support from social work, psychiatry, psychology, nutrition, preventive medicine, infection control, pharmacy, and chaplains.

Participation in clinical and/or laboratory research is a crucial portion of the Fellowship. Fellows have access to various laboratories with expertise in viral research (dengue, hepatitis, adenovirus), bacterial diseases, retroviral diseases (HIV), and parasitic diseases (malaria, leishmaniasis). These laboratories are at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, the Naval Medical Research Institute, and at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Fellows have also worked in programs at the National Institutes of Health and the United States Army Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. Hospital-based clinical research is also strongly encouraged, and both hospitals (WRAMC and NNMC) have vibrant research programs.

The clinical requirements for board eligibility are met in the first two years of the fellowship. An additional third year is available for research or completion of a Masters in Public Health at USUHS. Fellows wishing to pursue a Masters in Public Health will apply for the USUHS program during the winter of their second year.

This fellowship training is administered by the Graduate Medical Education Branch, Office of the Surgeon General, and is one of two Infectious Disease fellowships available in the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy.

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