Medical Microbiology Fellowship

Contact Information
Eric S. Rosenberg, MD
Director, Medical Microbiology Fellowship Training Program
Massachusetts General Hospital
55 Fruit Street, GRB-526
Boston,
MA
2114
Phone: 617-724-0082
Email: erosenberg1@partners.org
Jaclyn Brogna
Graduate Medical Education Program Manager
Phone: 617-726-0367
Email: jbrogna@partners.org
Explore This Fellowship
About the Fellowship
The Medical Microbiology Fellowship at Mass General, a one-year, ACGME-approved program, provides advance training to prepare pathologists and infectious disease specialists to serve as directors of a clinical microbiology laboratory. Our graduates possess an in-depth understanding of medical microbiology including the selection, validation, and interpretation of diagnostic microbiology tests. Our trainees will also be capable of managing a high volume, complex diagnostic laboratory. To these ends, the program will provide a comprehensive curriculum consisting of didactics, rotation through all sections of the clinical microbiology laboratory as well as rotations with various clinical services to gain an understanding of how testing in the microbiology laboratory informs clinical decision making. Particular emphasis will be placed on laboratory operation and management. Graduates of this program may choose to develop an area of research in microbiology that will prepare them for a career as a laboratory director at an academic health center.
Requirements
Fellows in Medical Microbiology must complete either:
1. Residency training in anatomic, clinical or combined anatomic/clinical pathology in a U.S. based training program, with primary certification or eligibility by the American Board of Pathology
OR
2. Fellows may also complete a U.S. primary residence in Internal Medicine or Pediatrics followed by completion of an ACGME accredited fellowship in Infectious Diseases
Applicants must be eligible for a Massachusetts medical license
Curriculum
Goals and Objectives
The Mass General Pathology Service medical microbiology fellowship goals are to:
- Gain the knowledge and skills specifically required to manage a high volume, complex diagnostic laboratory
- Provide a comprehensive curriculum consisting of didactics, weekly conferences, and in-depth rotations through all sections of the clinical microbiology laboratory
- Understand disease processes, selection of tests, and interpretation of results
Structure of the Program
The medical microbiology fellowship curriculum is designed to be completed within 12 months. For a fellow whose goal is to practice academic medicine, the training would consist of those same 12 months of clinical training with an opportunity to do an additional 12 months of scholarly research.
The following table shows a sample curriculum for the clinical year:
Bacteriology
12 weeks
Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing
4 weeks
Virology and Serology
4 weeks
Molecular Diagnostics
4 weeks
Mycology/Mycobacteriology/Parasitology
6 weeks
Infectious Disease Consultation
4 weeks
Infection Control
3 weeks
Point of Care testing
3 weeks
Scholarly project/Research
8 weeks
Research Experience
The Mass General Pathology Service medical microbiology fellowship provides those fellows seeking to practice academic medicine with an opportunity to take an additional 12 months to do scholarly research.
How to Apply
Now accepting applications for 2021-2022.
Applicants should send a completed CAP standardized Application for Pathology Fellowships, a current CV, one-page personal statement concerning their interest in Medical Microbiology, USMLE transcript, and three letters of reference to both the Fellowship Coordinator and the Program Director.
Our Faculty
Learn more about the faculty supervising this fellowship.
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- Chief, Infection Control Unit
- Associate Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases
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- Department of Pathology
- Infectious Diseases
- Department of Medicine
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- Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
- Associate Pathologist, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Associate Director, Microbiology Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital
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- Pathologist, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Associate Chief for Laboratory and Molecular Medicine
- Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
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- Infectious Diseases
- Department of Medicine