Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program, Orlando

The Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship at Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida (NCHFL) is a three-year ACGME-accredited program for graduates of pediatric medicine residencies. Nemours Children's is one of the largest integrated pediatric health systems in the United States and operates hospitals, specialty care, primary care, and urgent care facilities across several states, including Delaware, Florida, Georgia, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. NCHFL currently operates 135 inpatient beds, serving pediatric patients from birth to 18 years. There are more than 180 pediatric medical and surgical faculty physicians at NCHFL, caring for an incredibly medically vulnerable and diverse patient population across Central Florida. In addition, there are 44 categorical pediatric residents invested in the care of our patients

The pediatric infectious disease faculty are an integral part of the core pediatric residency program, offering clinical and didactic education that focuses on the multidisciplinary care of patients in the Nemours health system. They provide extensive clinical training in a highly complex and acute environment. Students, residents, and fellows experience excellent patient-centered clinical care coupled with education and mentorship. The pediatric infectious disease elective is available to residents during the entire academic year, and many residents choose to rotate with the service to enhance their understanding of infectious diseases, regardless of their ultimate specialty choice. 

We serve as role models of clinical excellence, compassion, and professionalism with a commitment to scholarly pursuits for all trainees and students. The pediatric infectious disease physicians are trained in basic science, public health and epidemiology, foundations for successful antimicrobial stewardship, infection control, and quality improvement programs. These programs enhance pediatric residents’ knowledge in this arena, which is critical to high-caliber medical care across many pediatric specialties. Pediatric infectious disease physicians are regarded as excellent communicators and teachers, possessing a special skillset of gathering and interpreting complex data that is used to formulate thorough assessments and medical care plans.

Pediatric infectious disease fellows will round and provide medical care to pediatric patients in both the inpatient and the outpatient setting in tandem with the infectious disease core faculty. In these patient care settings, fellows will interact with a diverse health care team, including pediatricians, other subspecialty faculty and fellows, medical and surgical residents, medical students, and others critical to the high-caliber interdisciplinary team. Pediatric infectious disease fellows will participate in and prepare core lectures, case presentations, and journal club for the pediatric infectious disease faculty, their fellow colleagues, rotating pediatric residents, and medical students. Fellows will act as supervisors to residents and medical students rotating on the pediatric infectious disease service with the guidance, support, and mentorship of the infectious disease faculty. Pediatric infectious disease fellows, and pediatric residents on the infectious disease service, will have the ability to interact with a wide array of health care professionals in a multidisciplinary fashion, including the infection prevention team (including infection preventionists and quality improvement staff) and the antimicrobial stewardship team (including pharmacists) as part of their core education.