Goel Divyam, Tin Michelle T, Hariprasad Krishna C, Garg Diya S, Besic Arnel, Dillon Tilly A, Masson Zoe R, Goralsky Lauren A, Goralsky Julia A, Barron Molly K, Saji Jasmine A, Hobson Wendy L, Jones Trahern W
College of Science, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
College of Natural Sciences, Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA.
Open Forum Infect Dis. 2023 Aug 23;10(9):ofad439. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofad439. eCollection 2023 Sep.
Only 74% of infectious diseases (ID) training positions were filled in the 2022 fellowship match, indicating a need to find increasingly novel and creative solutions for ID recruitment and outreach.
The websites of 2321 universities and 181 medical schools across the United States were manually searched for the presence of undergraduate clubs and interest groups, respectively, for multiple medical specialties and subspecialties, including ID. Geographic data were used to compare the proximity of ID fellowships to undergraduate institutions.
ID student groups were extremely rare among the categories studied throughout undergraduate institutions (6 out of 2048, or 0.29%). Only 58 of 163 (35.6%) medical schools nationwide included an ID student group. Geographic comparison found that every adult ID fellowship is in the same county and/or city as at least 1 undergraduate institution and 28.5% of adult ID fellowships are in the same zip code as at least 1 undergraduate institution.
The relative paucity of ID student interest groups presents an opportunity for the ID community to begin outreach and recruitment at the undergraduate and medical student levels, specifically through student groups.
在2022年的专科医师培训匹配中，仅有74%的传染病（ID）培训岗位得以填补，这表明需要为传染病专业的招聘和宣传找到越来越新颖且有创意的解决方案。
分别手动搜索了美国2321所大学和181所医学院的网站，以查找包括传染病专业在内的多个医学专业和亚专业的本科俱乐部和兴趣小组。利用地理数据来比较传染病专科医师培训项目与本科院校的距离。
在所研究的本科院校各类别中，传染病专业学生团体极为罕见（2048个中仅有6个，即0.29%）。全国163所医学院中只有58所（35.6%）设有传染病专业学生团体。地理比较发现，每个成人传染病专科医师培训项目所在的县和/或市至少有1所本科院校，且28.5%的成人传染病专科医师培训项目所在的邮政编码与至少1所本科院校相同。
传染病专业学生兴趣小组相对较少，这为传染病领域在本科和医学生层面开展宣传和招聘工作提供了契机，特别是通过学生团体来进行。
