Departments of Instruction

Division of Infectious Diseases

Division faculty members provide medical students and house staff with the opportunity to obtain information on basic microbiology, diagnostic bacteriology and virology, appropriate use of antimicrobial agents, host factors important to pathogenesis of infection, clinical diagnosis of infectious illness, and infection control procedures in the prevention of nosocomial infections. A regular medical student/house staff conference is conducted to provide the opportunity to acquire the principles of diagnosis of infectious diseases.

A busy consultative service has been established at Memorial Hermann Hospital and Lyndon B. Johnson General Hospital where a fellow in infectious diseases, medical residents, and often fourth-year medical students make up a team under the direction of one of the faculty members.