Fellowship Overview

Fellowship Program Director
Tanaya Bhowmick, MD

The two-year fellowship has the traditional educational, research and patient care components and is supported by the division's full-time and volunteer faculty that consists of ID physicians, an ID PharmD, and two pathology-trained MD/PhD or PhD clinical microbiologists. Training is based at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH), New Brunswick, NJ, the core clinical teaching site of Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS) and the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ). The fellowship blocks include inpatient consultation services involving (1) general ID and solid organ transplant patients and (2) infections in oncology patients, including leukemia, lymphoma and stem cell transplants; outpatient consultations that include general ID problems; a continuity of care experience; travel medicine; bench or clinical research; a microbiology laboratory rotation; and an optional pediatric ID rotation. In addition, fellows gain experience in infection prevention and hospital epidemiology and in antimicrobial stewardship.

During the clinical inpatient rotations, the fellow is responsible for the workup of patients referred for ID consultation. The general ID service averages three to five new consults per day, with one to two per day on the CINJ oncology ID service. Each fellow will be on call covering both services approximately one weekend a month, and there is call (from home) every third to fourth night on average. Fellows participate actively in student and resident training.

Fellows gain outpatient continuity of care experience by partnering with one of the full-time faculty one morning per week in their office practice, caring for patients with a variety of infectious diseases including HIV and Hepatitis C, as well as counseling and immunizing international travelers.

The infectious disease fellowship program was reaccredited in 2018 by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and was commended for its demonstrated substantial compliance with the ACGME's requirements for graduate medical education. This program has received the maximum length between reaccreditations.

To learn more about our Infectious Disease Fellowship Program, the Division of Allergy, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, as well as the Department of Medicine as a whole, please click here.

Rotations

  1. General ID Service – Approximately 12 months (Two fellows on service at most times)
  2. Microbiology Month (on-site microbiology laboratory)
  3. CINJ ID Service (focus on bone marrow transplant/leukemia and lymphoma as well as surgical and gynecologic oncology) – Approximately six months
  4. Research

Conferences

  1. Case Management Conference
  2. Journal Club
  3. Micro Rounds
  4. ID Seminar
  5. Research in Progress
  6. HIV Conference
  7. Fellows Core Curriculum Conference/Board Review

Monthly Conference Schedule

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Week 1

Micro Rounds

Fellows Conference

Case Management Conference

Research in Progress

Week 2

Journal Club

Fellows Conference

Case Management Conference

**Regional Rounds

Week 3

Micro Rounds

*Infection Prevention Committee

Case Management Conference

ID Seminar

Week 4

Journal Club

Fellows Conference

Case Management Conference

HIV Conference Alternating with Faculty Meeting

Week 5

(Fellows Conference)

Case Management Conference

(ID Seminar)

All conferences start at 1p, with the exception of:
*Infection Prevention Meeting at 12:30p
**Regional Rounds at 4:30 pm

The Hospital

RWJUH is the 610-bed primary teaching hospital of RWJMS and a major referral facility in central New Jersey. The hospital offers numerous tertiary care services, which include the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey; heart, kidney, pancreas and bone marrow/stem cell transplant programs; an active Clinical Research Center; sophisticated cardiodynamics; open heart surgery, including assist devices; a regional hemophilia program; a comprehensive breast center; a reproductive endocrinology and infertility center; Level 1 trauma services with a heliport and a shock-trauma unit; and a children's hospital, which is attached to the main hospital.