Conferences and Educational Opportunities

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
11:00am - Transplant ID Case Conference (optional) 8:00am - Medicine grand rounds (optional) 8:00 & 8:15am - ID Board Review and General ID Case Conference 12:00pm - Portland ID Citywide Conference
12:30pm - Journal Club (2nd Wednesday) or ID Faculty Seminar (4th Wednesday) 2:30 - 5:00pm - Academic Half Day ID Core Curriculum

Starting in the 2025-2026 academic year we have consolidated our core educational curriculum activities into one academic half day. Fellows on service will sign out their pagers and the consult service to the service attending at 2:30pm and then join in-person didactics from 3-5pm every Thursday afternoon and will not return to the consult service after the educational sessions are completed. This will allow protected and focused space for interactive education as well as closer integration between our previously separated curricular threads incorporating core concepts of general ID, immunocompromised ID, HIV medicine, antimicrobial tutorials, antimicrobial stewardship, and quality improvement.

Each Wednesday fellows participate in a facilitated review of a few board review questions before case conference with program leadership. Here we discuss ID board review content, learning objectives, and test taking strategies.

Transplant ID (Monday) and General ID (Wednesday) case conferences are weekly, clinically-oriented, engaging conferences that allow our fellows and faculty the opportunity to share challenging and interesting active cases.

Our Citywide conference is a case-based conference that is hosted at a rotating clinical site on a weekly basis. Cases and short discussions are presented, with lively participation from colleagues throughout the Portland metropolitan area.

Journal Club is held monthly and led by two fellows, with an emphasis on critical review of the literature and presentation of key or practice-changing ID papers.

Our Faculty Seminar series is held monthly and highlights the active scholarly pursuits of our faculty.