Infectious Diseases

Components of Training

Core Training
Clinical Infectious Diseases
Training should include diagnosis and management of patients within the wide range of the most common and important infections.

Essential areas of training include:

• HIV-related disease and other sexually transmitted diseases
  
• general infectious diseases in hospitalised patients, including infections of surgical patients and in intensive care
  
• infections in patients immunosuppressed for transplantation
  
• infections in patients immunosuppressed by cancer and its treatment;
  
• tropical, travel and geographic medicine
  
• infection control
  
• immunisation
  
• childhood and neonatal infections, including those associated with primary immunodeficiency.

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Log Book
You will need to keep a log book to record patients seen, with their diagnosis. The log book will also be used to document clinical experience and attendance at educational activities as described above. The log book will usually be evaluated by the supervisor, at least every six months, except in exceptional circumstances, when the SAC may ask to view the log book. Your supervisor will use the log book to assist in the presentation of the supervisor's report.

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Laboratory Training
The laboratory component of training consists of either:

• a minimum of six months spent working in a microbiology laboratory providing routine clinical services (this experience should be documented by the supervisor on the supervisor's report form);
  OR
• attendance at an SAC sponsored microbiology training course which will include pre-reading, a two week intensive, hands-on course in laboratory methods and an associated series of lectures on the topics of antibiotic resistance, introduction to parasitology, and/or introduction to laboratory virology.

This two week training course will be followed by a small laboratory based project at the home institution and participation in a number of laboratory based quarterly assurance projects forwarded to you by the training course supervisor.

If you are undertaking the laboratory component of training by this option, you are expected to provide documentation of successful completion of the course by the SAC training course supervisor.

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