Electives
Fellows receive 2-3 months of research time annually during their fellowship in which further electives may be pursued. A benefit of being a smaller program is the ability to individualize fellow education based off each fellow’s specific career goals and to ensure focused exposure throughout their fellowship.
At Harbor-UCLA, fellows can utilize elective time with Pediatric ID, Infection Control, Microbiology, and additional Antibiotic Stewardship rotations.
All fellows rotate during their second year at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center for 3 weeks consulting on the ID Transplant Consult Service for lung, heart, and liver transplant recipients. This supplements their renal transplant experience received at Harbor-UCLA. For fellows with interest in pursuing transplant medicine, additional time can be requested for further experience at Ronald Reagan during their second year.
Fellows have an amazing opportunity during their 2nd year for a 4-week elective with the LA County Department of Public Health in which they have focused experience through the subdivisions in HIV/STDs, TB, Vector Borne, Automated Surveillance, Bioterrorism/Special Investigation, Vaccine Preventable, Respiratory, Viral Hepatitis, HAI/MDR, and Foodborne infection outbreaks,
 Additional outpatient DHS experiences include rotating through specialty clinics including Chagas disease (Olive View Medical Center) and leprosy (USC/LAC).
  
In collaboration with the Department of Family Medicine, our fellows and faculty are invited to volunteer with Refugee Health Alliance (RHA). On Saturdays, RHA coordinates street medicine outreach to the local refugee shelters in Tijuana, providing care to 50-100 patients depending on how many teams can be supported. Additional medical clinics outside of RHA specializing in tuberculosis and HIV are being established.
Read more at refugeehealthalliance.orgÂ
Fellows with a specific interest in international infectious are invited to an opportunity, post-graduation, to go to King Edward VIII Hospital in Durban, South Africa with a focus on HIV, opportunistic infections and health services research. Limitations set by the Los Angeles County prevent fellows from an international experience during their training however the program will help with setting up the rotation and a share of the costs.
