Infectious Diseases Jobs
Infectious Diseases Physicians diagnose, manage, treat, and prevent infections and infectious diseases. They have expert knowledge on microbes, such as bacteria, funguses, viruses, and parasites that infect humans. They also have specialised knowledge of antibiotic resistance, vaccines, immunology, and antimicrobial entities and treatments. Infectious diseases physicians can dual specialise in Internal Medicine, and work in clinical settings, such as in emergency departments, managing acute problems, such as STIs, or recognising life-threatening conditions such as sepsis. They provide long-term care of immunocompromised patients and those suffering chronic diseases, such as Hepatitis and HIV. They manage patients presenting with infections in perioperative and intensive care units in hospitals, who may require rapid assessment, isolation, management, specialised antibiotic treatment. They manage contact tracing and decontamination. They consult with other subspecialists and generalists, as well as primary care providers, ambulance services and medical laboratory staff. Infectious Disease and Physicians who dual specialise in Microbiology or Virology work in hospital and medical laboratories, where they may lead teams, conduct tests, interpret and analyse results, and liaise with medical staff regarding results and clinical and community management. They are often involved in research, training, education and advocacy across health care, public health, and community health settings. To qualify in this area of medicine, doctors complete foundation and core training, followed by Combined Infection Training (CIT), an indicative 2-year program. After this they undertake a further 2-3 years dual training in Infectious Diseases and either Medical Microbiology (MM), Medical Virology (MV) or General Internal Medicine (GIM), which leads to a dual CCT, fellowship, and entry onto the GMC speciality register.