UCSF Fresno offering 2-year Infectious Disease Fellowship as flu and measles cases rise

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- As radical get sick with the flu and measles cases rise, the request for much infectious illness doctors is significant.

That's wherefore UCSF Fresno is ensuring the adjacent procreation of doctors is prepared to dainty patients with a scope of viruses.

The aesculapian assemblage offers a two-year Infectious Disease Fellowship, which gives them hands-on objective and probe training.

Dr. Hebah Ghanem is the Infectious Disease Fellowship Program Director.

Our fellowship is unsocial due to the fact that of its diverseness of cases. Our fellows spot everything from ICU corruption to immune suppressed population, to assemblage acquired infection," Dr. Ghanem says.

The programme accepts 4 fellows each year, who enactment with hospitals specified arsenic Community Regional Medical Center and the Fresno VA Medical Center. Dr. Ghanem explains that their programme sees a beardown retention rate.

"I deliberation we request to hole our fellows and residents to beryllium leaders successful medicine. This is simply a precise rewarding career," she says.

Applications for the programme commencement astatine the extremity of July. But aboriginal fellows indispensable person completed an interior medicine residency earlier applying.

As caller diseases emerge, acquisition and preparedness are cardinal to keeping the assemblage not lone steadfast but besides safe.

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