Are there any medical schools with a solid infectious disease program?

McKenney

A variety of different medical schools have really good programs. The University of Virginia - Charlottseville is a great school for Cancer research. The University of Utah - SLC has a great pathology program (infectious diseases)The University of Wisconsin (Madison) is a major research facility which would have a great deal of research opportunities and learning opportunities for infectious diseases. I would recommend any of those above.



Jonesville

All medical schools teach the same material for the first two years. I would be more concerned with doing well in whatever medical school you think would give you the greatest clout when applying to residencies. Spanking the boards would be helpful as well. An exception to the above would be if you were interested in an md/phd. Then picking a top research school in infectious disease would be very important. Could someone at the CDC help out. I know that schools with high at risk patients might be good, like USC in California.



Kelso

They all have solid infectious disease programs. See the above advice about residencies. The University of Pennsylvania has experts in travel medicine and its veterinary school does great work in parasitology. Of course, if you really want to have fun you can go to school in a country where infectious diseases are rampant!



Latrobe

In my opinion, infectious disease is a dying discipline. The greater growth is in chronic disease (cancer, diabetes, gerontology) because we simply don't get a lot of really fascinating infectious diseases in the industrialized world. If you want to study ID in the US, I highly recommend Tulane because they have their School of Tropical Medicine. Very cool. However, after Hurricane Katrina, they decimated their faculty, so it may be hard to get what you need till they rebuild their infrastructure. You may also want to consider schools in Puerto Rico, the Caribbean and Mexico if you want to study ID -- these regions have a lot of infectious disease burden, so you will see interesting cases firsthand, and have lots of experience training on and treating them.