Who Counts as a Medical Rotator?
- External Rotators, including UF medical students
- For these rotations, please have your department/division contact reach out to us directly.
- Domestic and International VSLO (visiting medical students) – please use the VSLO system to apply!
- UF and Visiting Internal Medicine Residents (PGY‑1 to PGY‑3)
- Non-UF students must have a Program Letter of Agreement approved: if you are a resident who wants to rotate with UF Infectious Disease, please get in touch at idfellowship@medicine.ufl.edu as soon as possible, but no less than 120 days prior to your desired start of rotation, as PLA’s need at least 90 days to process after submission to the portal.
- PA Students (special permission must be obtained)
- Nursing Students (special permission must be obtained)
Summary
This elective is designed to advance knowledge in infectious diseases by providing a strong foundation of knowledge. By the end of the rotation, our aim is for the rotator to become proficient in managing some infectious diseases which are commonly encountered in hospital and outpatient settings.
Residents rotating on the inpatient infectious diseases consult service(s) will participate in the evaluation and management of patients with a broad spectrum of infectious diseases. Under the supervision of infectious diseases faculty and fellows, residents will evaluate new consultations, develop diagnostic and therapeutic plans, and follow patients longitudinally during their hospitalization. Residents will typically evaluate up to three new consults per day and participate in the ongoing care of previously seen patients.
Rotators will encounter a wide range of infectious syndromes across diverse patient populations, including infections in surgical patients, solid organ and stem cell transplant recipients, critically ill patients, obstetric/gynecologic patients, hematology-oncology patients, general medicine patients, and individuals with HIV or other immunocompromising conditions.
This elective is typically scheduled in two-week blocks, with residents having the option to complete up to four weeks of Infectious Diseases elective time. Rotators may select one or two consult services (teams) depending on availability and educational goals (team descriptions are further down).
For more details, please review the Rotator Goals & Objectives PDF. Our goals and objectives are organized according to the six ACGME core competencies.
Rotation Details
Please note that these details apply to most rotator experiences, but will vary from student to student. Please check you introductory emails to ensure your details are accurate!
Physical Locations
Meeting Location
- University of Florida Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine
- 1600 SW Archer Road, Room D2-39 (in the Dental Building), Gainesville, FL 32610
Length of Rotation
- 2 or 4 weeks, depending on approval
Percent Outpatient
- Optional depending on the attending’s preference (not mandatory)
Percent Structured Research Time
- 0%
Continuity Clinic Requirements:
- Residents must attend their continuity clinic as required by their training program. No need to attend ID specific continuity clinics.
Call Requirements:
- None
Supervising Faculty & Contact Information
- Rotation Director:
- Dr. Pooja Gurram, MD
- pooja.gurram@medicine.ufl.edu
- Administrative Coordinator:
- Emilee McGann
- idfellowship@medicine.ufl.edu
- Phone: (352) 294 – 5481
Learning & Educational Activities
- Direct patient care on inpatient consult service
- Daily consult rounds with ID faculty and fellows
- Bedside teaching rounds
- Interpretation of microbiology laboratory results & microbiology laboratory rounds
- Participation in ID conferences
- Case‑based literature review & teaching sessions
- Assessment Methods
- Faculty evaluation at the end of rotation
- Direct observation of clinical performance
- Evaluation of written consult notes
- Assessment of case presentations during rounds
- Interdisciplinary collaboration with pharmacists, microbiologists, and infection prevention teams
- Antimicrobial stewardship discussions
Infectious Disease Inpatient Consult Teams
The University of Florida’s Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine provides consultative care to UF Health/Shands and the Malcolm Randall VA Medical Center. Typically, rotators will be working with ID Inpatient teams working at UF Health/Shands, but special permission may be obtained to rotate at the VA. Please contact the administrative coordinator if you are interested in rotating at the VA.
Each team at UF Health/Shands primarily cares for patients referred by specific consulting specialties (e.g., transplant, surgery, oncology, general medicine, and critical care). A detailed description of each consult service and the patient populations served is provided below.
Both the ID services at UF Health Shands Hospital and the Malcolm Randall VA Medical Center are run by the on-service ID attendings on each team, and there is usually an ID fellow on Teams A, B, and the VA Service.
General ID Services
Team A: Med Services (Gold, Orange, Green, Blue, Red), Family Med, MICU, GI, Ob/Gyn, Psych, Congenital Heart, Emergency/ED, Plastic Surgery, ENT, Burn ICU,
Team B: Neurology, Neurosurgery, Neuro ICU, SICU, CCM, Cardiology (MCT), CT Surgery (ACS, CVS), CCU/CICU, Orthopedics, Urology, Trauma Surgery, Vascular Surgery, PBS, Colorectal, MIS
Team C: Hospitalists/Select consults
Team D1: Hospitalists/Select consults
Team X: (when present) Overflow consults from Team B
Team Y: (when present) Overflow consults from Team A
Team Z: (when present) Overflow consults teams C and D
UF Transplant ID Service (Transplant A & Transplant B): TxA & TxB: BMT, Renal, Liver, Pancreas, Lung, and Heart Transplant, Heart Failure, Hepatobiliary Surgery
General ID Service (VA):
Starting Your Rotation
After you have been accepted to rotate with UFID, your institution’s point of contact with coordinate with UFID’s Administrative Coordinator to ensure you are logged on our rotator log.
A few days prior to your rotation, you will receive an email from UFID confirming your rotation, which will include the Goals & Objectives for your rotation. Additionally, we will let you know which team(s) you’re rotating with, and who the attending(s) and Fellow(s) are on service, as well as their contact information.
Please note that we will need you to send the following upon receipt of the email:
- A headshot
- A contact phone number
- An institutional contact name and email
- Any days off you anticipate having during your rotation
On your first day, you will arrive at our ID admin office by 9 am. We are in the College of Dentistry (1600 SW Archer Road), 2nd Floor.
The closest parking option is the West Visitor Parking Garage (1831 Mowry Rd., Gainesville, FL 32603) which is located approximately 1 block west of the Dental Science Building; however – this parking option may not be the best parking option for you based on the parking pass you have/temporarily receive for your rotation! Please make sure you check with the UF Transportation and Parking Service (TAPS) (https://taps.ufl.edu/) to ensure you know which kind of parking pass you have, and use their website to find appropriate parking garages. A map of where we are located will be attached to your rotation confirmation email.
During your rotation, you will contact Dr. Southwick on Monday evening (via EPIC Secure Chat, with the patient’s name attached) with an interesting case you have seen and plan to meet with him for bedside teaching on Tuesday. You will also contact Dr. Pooja Gurram (Pooja.Gurram@medicine.ufl.edu) on Thursday mornings to discuss antibiotics.
You will be encouraged to attend our ID conferences. Your confirmation email will include our conference schedule.