Program

Choosing our program means choosing a program built on more than 15 years of experience. This unique program based in Sherbrooke, Québec, prepares residents for all types of community and academic practice. Department staff also provide infectious disease consulting services and direct an ambulatory antibiotic treatment centre. With the opening in fall 2008 of the infectious diseases ambulatory care department (SAMI) in a new wing of Hôtel-Dieu, we were able to consolidate ambulatory outpatient follow-up and treatment of tropical diseases. The HIV clinic, founded over 20 years ago by Dr. Raymond Duperval, will move to this cutting-edge facility designed to foster a multidisciplinary approach.

Regular educational activities (journal club, problem-based learning and case-method dialogue) gradually introduce residents to the knowledge they need to practice as microbiologists-infectiologists as well as exposing them to advanced diagnostic and therapeutic methods. Patient safety is also one of our main concerns; we have an effective infection prevention program and are developing technology for monitoring and controlling antibiotics.

Every effort is made to interest residents and help them integrate. In international clinical research (HIV, viral hepatites, African trypano­somiasis, etc.), hospital epidemiology (Clostridium difficile, MRSA, prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia) and basic research, qualified clinician researchers offer their expertise and encouragement but residents have a central role in their projects in order tp prepare them for careers as independent investigators.