This residency program is for 2 years.

Program length of training does not exceed the Royal College or College of Family Physicians of Canada standard.

Our training program meets the Royal College Subspecialty training requirements for Adult Infectious Diseases (2016 revision). Mandatory rotations occur across the different stages of training using the CBME framework.

• Transition to Discipline – inpatient consults
• Foundations of Discipline – inpatient consults (2), infection control and prevention, medical microbiology (2), research
• Core of Discipline – inpatient consults (3), antimicrobial stewardship, public health, medical microbiology, pediatric infectious diseases (2), elective/selective (3), research (2)
• Transition to Practice – inpatient consults (junior attending) (2), elective/selective (2)

The program will use the principle of graded responsibility based on the resident’s attainment of competence in Entrustable Professional Activities as one progresses throughout the stages of the competence by design framework.

One of the benefits of CBME is that rotation schedules can be modified to allow residents to complete more rotations in their area of interest to prepare for further fellowship training, community practice, etc. Examples of tailored experiences included elective rotations in tropical / travel medicine, transplant infectious diseases, dermatology, viral hepatitis and community infectious diseases.

Residents will complete two rotations in pediatric infectious diseases. One rotation will be held at KHSC under the supervision of Dr. Kirk Leifso, our pediatric infectious diseases colleague. The second rotation is held at CHEO through an inter-institutional affiliation of the University of Ottawa.

During the course of the training program, residents will attend one half day ambulatory clinic per week unless away from Kingston. This will include a longitudinal resident clinic alternating weekly with either general infectious diseases clinic, TB clinic or HIV/PrEP clinic. Additional clinic experience is provided in pediatric infectious diseases at the Children’s Outpatient Centre at Hotel Dieu Hospital during the pediatric infectious diseases rotation while clinics in STI and PrEP will be mandatory during the Public Health rotation at KFL&A Public Health.

Selective rotations in dermatology, rheumatology, allergy and immunology and viral hepatitis are available at Queen’s. Future planned selectives include community infectious diseases through Queen’s at Lakeridge Health (Oshawa) and Northern/Remote experience in partnership with Weeneebayko Health Authority.

Residents attend a weekly academic half day, protected from clinical responsibilities, with an evolving curriculum content to cover the breadth of infectious diseases and microbiology content outlined in the Royal College Objectives of Training along with related CanMEDS competencies and topics on professional development and transition to practice.

Infectious diseases case rounds are held weekly and attended by residents and learners, divisional faculty and microbiology staff. These rounds are case-based teaching around patients encountered on the consult service or in clinics. Weekly plate rounds are held by the microbiologist on call and present short teaching sessions related to laboratory diagnostics. A monthly journal club occurs with presentation by residents and faculty in an informal setting to encourage discussion and debate.

The Infectious Diseases division participates within the Department of Medicine through weekly Mortality and Morbidity rounds and Medicine Grand Rounds.

Residents will be encouraged to identify and meet with a research supervisor early on in their training to develop a research question and project that will lead to presentation at suitable conferences or publication Dr. Santiago Perez is the designated faculty member to support and mentor residents in research activities. Residents may take up to 5 elective blocks to support approved activities in research, quality improvement, educational scholarship, or creative professional activity.

Active areas of research in the division include clinical trials of COVID-19 therapeutics, aging in HIV patients, Staph. aureus infections, tick-borne infectious diseases, Clostridioides difficile, antimicrobial resistance and development of microbe based therapeutics and expanding access to PrEP in rural settings.

The division of Infectious Diseases is part of the Translational Institute of Medicine at Queen’s University Department of Medicine. This is a network to facilitate research collaboration between basic science researchers and clinicians and between different disciplines where common research interests exist. The TIME network will provide additional opportunities for ID residents to engage in scholarly activity. Research facilities including the Gastrointestinal Disease Research Unit and laboratories in the Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences at Queens University will provide opportunities for fellows to pursue research activities.