Continuity Clinic
All ID fellows participate in a minimum 24 month continuity clinic experience. Fellows are assigned to their continuity clinic at one of three sites - the Grady Infectious Disease Program (IDP) (located at the Ponce de Leon Center), the Emory Healthcare Infectious Disease Clinic (located at EUHM), or the Atlanta VA Medical Center Infectious Disease Clinic.
Fellows spend one-half day per week in their clinic and work with a faculty preceptor who is located on site at the clinic and provides direct supervision. These mentors are all experienced ID physicians. The case mix between the three ambulatory sites varies - the IDP clinic exclusively serves patients living with HIV, whereas the clinics at EUHM and the VAMC serve patients living with HIV as well as patients with non-HIV infectious diseases issues (which includes hospital consult follow-up visits from the affiliated sites). Fellows will develop and follow a panel of patients living with HIV in their continuity clinic who they will follow longitudinally for at least one year.
Emory Healthcare Infectious Diseases Clinic
This clinic is based at EUHM and provides primary care for approximately 2,000 patients living with HIV (including the majority of patients with HIV and hemophilia living in Atlanta) as well as ID consultative services for a broad referral area in the southeastern United States. The Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy (OPAT) clinic and TravelWell clinics are also based at EUHM. Fellows who have their continuity clinic at the Emory ID Clinic will be the primary provider for patients living with HIV, including patients newly diagnosed with HIV infection, and will also see patients referred to ID for non-HIV issues from other ambulatory or inpatient settings.
Grady Ponce de Leon Center Infectious Diseases Program
The Infectious Diseases Program (IDP) at the Ponce de Leon Center provides care for over 6,000 un- and underinsured adults and children living with HIV and is a major site of clinical research in HIV/AIDS. The Ryan White-funded Center, one of the finest outpatient facilities for HIV/AIDS care in the country, provides comprehensive care to its patients including primary medical care, subspecialty care (dermatology, pulmonology, oncology, anoscopy, etc), mental health services, nutrition, case management, oral health and other services. Fellows who have their continuity clinic at the Ponce de Leon Center will be the primary provider for patients living with HIV, including patients newly diagnosed with HIV infection.
Atlanta VAMC Infectious Diseases Clinic
The Atlanta VAMC ID Clinic cares for over 2,000 veterans living with HIV and is the largest HIV clinic in the VA system nationally. Fellows who have their continuity clinic at the VAMC will be the primary provider for patients living with HIV, including patients newly diagnosed with HIV infection, and will also see patients referred to ID for non-HIV issues from other ambulatory or inpatient settings.
Ambulatory Rotation
All first-year fellows participate in a one-month ambulatory ID rotation in Year 1. The goals of this rotation are to give fellows experiences in specialized areas of ID that may not be encountered during the inpatient consult rotations or in their continuity clinic. This includes, but is not limited to, experiences in the Emory TravelWell Clinic (for pre- and post-travel consultations), the Grady and VAMC Hepatitis Clinics (for management of chronic viral hepatitis), the Transplant ID Clinic (for pre- and post-transplant outpatient ID consultations), the Fulton County Tuberculosis and Sexually Transmitted Diseases Clinics, and the Pediatric Immunology Clinic based at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (which serves patients with congenital immunodeficiencies).