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40 Annual Report University of Missouri- Columbia OverView of clinical programs + Services The Division of Infectious Disease clinical services include Rehabilitation Center, and Missouri Orthopedic Institute are also inpatient and outpatient consultation by physician referral. seen on a consult basis. All infectious disease faculty and fellows Treatment for prisoners of the State of Missouri is provided both see patients in the weekly Boone County Health Department outpatient and via telemedicine. Harry S. Truman Memorial Sexually Transmitted Disease Clinic. Training of fellow, residents, Veterans’ Hospital patients are seen in both inpatient and and students occur in all clinical settings. Additionally, Drs. outpatient settings. Infectious disease fellows, supervised William Salzer, Gordon Christensen and Christian Rojas- Moreno by Dr. William Salzer, staff a weekly HIV clinic that provides serve as hospitalists on the medicine wards service at the continuity care for approximately 300 patients infected with HIV University Hospital. virus. For most of these patients, infectious disease physicians serve as their primary care. Patients at Landmark Hospital, Rusk Editorial Boards • Publications Overview of education The Infectious Disease Fellowship Program was established The fellowship program provides 16 months of clinical in September of 1977 and was fully accredited by the ACGME experience and eight months of dedicated clinical training and July 1, 1987. The two-year program is designed for three research. The emphasis on research varies according to the postdoctoral fellows on an alternating basis: two positions open interests and career goals of each fellow. Each fellow receives one year; one position becomes available the next year. As with protected time to fulfill the research mission and requirement most subspecialty training programs, teaching and management of the fellowship program. First year fellows receive three rounds are combined in the fellowship program. Rounds are months and second year fellows receive four months. An patient-based and current cases are presented for discussion infectious disease faculty mentor i 276