Publications by authors named "R M Reece"
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, undercompensation, 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.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHigh patient volume in fellowship programs can affect learning, wellness, and patient outcomes. Training programs must find ways to mitigate high consultation volume to protect the learning environment. This survey describes average new consults and average censuses for infectious diseases training programs and strategies implemented to mitigate high volume.
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- The Infectious Diseases Society of America Training Program Directors Committee convened in October 2022 to address challenges in fellow education due to increased clinical demand and complexity in ID services.
- The committee focused on setting goals and strategies to enhance training program culture while ensuring quality education both in inpatient settings and outpatient clinics.
- This document summarizes the ideas discussed during the meeting and aims to provide a reference for training program directors in infectious diseases looking for guidance on these issues.
Importance: Practice guidelines often provide recommendations in which the strength of the recommendation is dissociated from the quality of the evidence.
Objective: To create a clinical guideline for the diagnosis and management of adult bacterial infective endocarditis (IE) that addresses the gap between the evidence and recommendation strength.
Evidence Review: This consensus statement and systematic review applied an approach previously established by the WikiGuidelines Group to construct collaborative clinical guidelines.
Article Synopsis
- * In 2018, the IDSA established the IDA&E Task Force to implement these priorities, while a 2021 meeting focused on best practices for training infectious disease fellows.
- * The document highlights specific goals and strategies related to recruitment, clinical training, and faculty development, serving as a resource for ID training program directors.