Location: Columbia, South Carolina

Duration: 4 weeks

Course Offered: Throughout academic year

Number of Students: 2 per rotation (only USCSM and MUSC students)

Students Report To: Two Richland Medical Park, Suite 502,
9:00 a.m.

This course will provide the student with clinical experience in infectious diseases. The student will see patients on the infectious diseases consultation service and in outpatient settings (including the Ryan White HIV clinic 2 mornings a week) under the supervision of the infectious disease attending physician. Emphasis will be on the correlation of basic microbiologic principles with clinical expressions of diseases. The combined clinical and didactic experience should enable the student to: (1) use antimicrobial drugs rationally, (2) diagnose and treat patients with HIV/AIDS, and (3) acquire an approach to the diagnosis and treatment of varied infections.