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

For the Infectious Diseases Society of America Fellowship Training Program Directors Community of Practice and Working Group (complete list of contributing authors in the Working Group listed in acknowledgments)

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

For the Infectious Diseases Society of America Fellowship Training Program Directors Community of Practice and Working Group (complete list of contributing authors in the Working Group listed in acknowledgments)

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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. 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.

Original language	English
Article number	ofae669
Journal	Open Forum Infectious Diseases
Volume	11
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofae669
State	Published - 1 Dec 2024

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infectious diseases fellowship
medical education
positive messaging
value

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For the Infectious Diseases Society of America Fellowship Training Program Directors Community of Practice and Working Group (complete list of contributing authors in the Working Group listed in acknowledgments) (2024). Shaping the Future of Infectious Diseases: The Journey to Promote Value, Opportunity, and Positive Messaging. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 11(12), Article ofae669. https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofae669

For the Infectious Diseases Society of America Fellowship Training Program Directors Community of Practice and Working Group (complete list of contributing authors in the Working Group listed in acknowledgments). / Shaping the Future of Infectious Diseases : The Journey to Promote Value, Opportunity, and Positive Messaging. In: Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 2024 ; Vol. 11, No. 12.

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For the Infectious Diseases Society of America Fellowship Training Program Directors Community of Practice and Working Group (complete list of contributing authors in the Working Group listed in acknowledgments) 2024, 'Shaping the Future of Infectious Diseases: The Journey to Promote Value, Opportunity, and Positive Messaging', Open Forum Infectious Diseases, vol. 11, no. 12, ofae669. https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofae669

Shaping the Future of Infectious Diseases: The Journey to Promote Value, Opportunity, and Positive Messaging. / For the Infectious Diseases Society of America Fellowship Training Program Directors Community of Practice and Working Group (complete list of contributing authors in the Working Group listed in acknowledgments).
In: Open Forum Infectious Diseases, Vol. 11, No. 12, ofae669, 01.12.2024.

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For the Infectious Diseases Society of America Fellowship Training Program Directors Community of Practice and Working Group (complete list of contributing authors in the Working Group listed in acknowledgments). Shaping the Future of Infectious Diseases: The Journey to Promote Value, Opportunity, and Positive Messaging. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 2024 Dec 1;11(12):ofae669. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofae669

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