The Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases provides the opportunity for training in virtually every aspect of clinical infectious diseases. Clinical training takes place both in the inpatient and the outpatient setting. All fellows participate in approximately 10 months of inpatient consultative service at affiliated hospitals. These clinical rotations include consultive experience with general medical and surgical patients (University of Washington Medical Center, Harborview Medical Center, and Veteran's Administration Hospital), with specific opportunities in pediatric infectious diseases (Children's Hospital), with infectious diseases in immunocompromised hosts (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington Medical Center), and with AIDS patients and patients with other sexually transmitted diseases (Harborview Medical Center and the University of Washington Medical Center). The clinical training provided by this program confers ID board eligibility after two years.
While nearly all of the Divisional faculty participate in clinical care, the following faculty participate more extensively in clinical and teaching activities of the Division: Timothy Dellitt, M.D., Robert Harrington, M.D., Ajit Limaye, M.D., Richard Miller, M.D., David Spach, M.D., Stephen Tabet, M.D., and Marvin Turck, M.D.
Outpatient Training Opportunities
Several clinics are available for outpatient training in Infectious Diseases. Most fellows will work in one of the three HIV/AIDS clinics operated by the Division. This provides a long-term, continuity clinic and experience in managing HIV infected patients. Fellows will also participate in at least one other clinic rotation according to their interests and areas of research. Two years of weekly half-day outpatient clinics are completed during fellowship.
Sexually Transmitted Diseases Clinic: An academically oriented comprehensive genitourinary medicine clinic operated jointly by the Seattle-King County Department of Public Health and the University of Washington is located at Harborview Medical Center. The STD Clinic provides a focus for a number of research and training activities.
Viral Diseases Clinic: Located near Harborview Medical Center, this clinic serves as a research base (5000 patient visits annually) for investigation of the natural history, pathogenesis, immunology, and therapy of genital herpes, human papillomavirus infection, hepatitis C virus, HHV-8, and other viral STD's.
AIDS Clinics:
Outpatient facilities directed by the Infectious Diseases Division at Harborview Medical Center, the University of Washington Medical Center, and the Veterans Administration Medical Center currently serve approximately 3500 patient visits annually. In addition to medical care, these clinics also provide substance abuse, nutritional, psychological, and social counseling services.
Tropical Medicine, Travel and Infectious Diseases
Clinic: Located at University of Washington Medical Center to serve as a referral and primary clinic for general infectious diseases, tropical medicine, and travelers; the clinic currently handles approximately 600 patient visits per year.
Harborview Medical Center Infectious Diseases Clinic:
A referral clinic for the evaluation and management of infectious disease problems other than HIV infection that can be managed in the outpatient setting.
