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Shaping the Future of Infectious Diseases: The Journey to Promote Value, Opportunity, and Positive Messaging
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Shaping the Future of Infectious Diseases: The Journey to Promote Value, Opportunity, and Positive Messaging

Molly L Paras, Judy Streit, Lisa M Chirch, Mariam Aziz, Gayle P Balba, Constance Benson, Saira Butt, Scott H James, Todd McCarty, Raymund Razonable, …
Open forum infectious diseases, Vol.11(12), ofae669
12/2024
DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofae669
PMCID: PMC11604074
PMID: 39610405
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Abstract The field of infectious diseases (ID) offers a rewarding career path and is widely viewed as an essential subspecialty in medicine. However, in recent years, these positive aspects have been overshadowed by concerns surrounding low fellowship match rates, under-compensation, and burnout. The Infectious Diseases Society of America Fellowship Training Program Directors Committee met in 2023, discussed the future of ID as a specialty, and sought to develop strategies to highlight the value and opportunities of ID for future generations, as well as underscore the importance of and provide tools for positive messaging to trainees about the subspecialty. This paper presents ideas generated at this meeting and is meant to serve as a reference for ID training program directors, as well as the wider ID community, in uplifting and shaping the future of the field.
Medical Education infectious diseases fellowship positive messaging value

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