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so i'm sharon weissman i'm the
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division chief for infectious disease as
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well as the
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program director for the infectious
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disease fellowship program
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one of our goals in this fellowship
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program
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in addition to making our turning our
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fellows into
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excellent infectious disease physicians
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is to really
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um teach them how to be clinical
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scholars in the sense that they
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take a more scholarly approach to their
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patient care they review the literature
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they're up on
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on the latest information and they're
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really educators not only
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in their hospital and if they're at a
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teaching program for their residents and
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students but
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for the whole community so our program
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graduates have
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gone into many different career paths
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several of them have stayed within our
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program and are now part of our faculty
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they have more of an academic career
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path although
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even in that they've done different
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things some have focused more on hiv
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some have focused more on stewardship
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some will focus more on bone and joint
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infections
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we've had a couple of fellows who've
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gone into
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private practice i think that's one of
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the strengths
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of our program is how collegial we are
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and
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the fellows that's one of the things
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that attracts a lot of fellows to our
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program
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they feel a real sense of camaraderie we
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have very
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good faculty to fellow ratio and the
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faculty are all very interested in the
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fellows and teaching
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and promoting their
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their academic success as well as their
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overall well-being
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in the clinic we actually do it's called
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ip for interprofessional education and
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it's
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we do four or five of these a year two
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weeks programs where we have
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trainees from many disciplines and they
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get a two-week intensive
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inter-professional training
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where they spend time with all different
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aspects of
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the healthcare from pharmacy to case
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management
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to nursing to social work to
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the physicians and really get to
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understand how a healthcare system works
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as a team
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i'm edwin hayes i just finished my
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infectious disease fellowship
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last year with prisma health usc school
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of medicine colombia
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when i came here for my interview i was
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just amazed
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by the relationships that the people had
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with each other
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the attendings the pharmacy staff the
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nurses
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everyone is just very supportive and
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cohesive they do a very good job of
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working together
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and i was very inspired by that when i
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came here
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though i was pretty impressed i didn't
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expect to find a lot of the populations
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that i enjoy working with
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we have a robust refugee population that
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our clinic works with especially as a
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fellow
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we also have a transgender clinic that
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helps a lot of people in need in this
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community
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and that's really not something you
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would think about when you think about
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columbia south carolina but those
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populations are here the need is here
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and there's a lot of opportunity to do
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good
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and the more i learned about this this
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area
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the more interested i was in working
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here
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cost of living has greatly improved the
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quality of life
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it's very easy for me to have a smaller
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amount of money put into
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day-to-day things and still be able to
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to spend more money doing the things i
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love
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like travel and eat out and that's
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that's been a real boon for me
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being here i absolutely wanted a program
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that had the kind of intimate time
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and and ability to be with me and kind
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of mentor me directly as possible
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but i also still wanted to have access
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to things like research
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and kind of that larger academic
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institution and this program does a
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really good job of balancing that
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i feel like i get that personal
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interaction that i'm looking for
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but i still have access to these larger
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academic discussions with a group full
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of great minds
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so it's been a really good balance of
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the things that i look for
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in practice and in learning to be a
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doctor
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