How might a fellowship curriculum aiming for general community consultants emphasize rotations differently than one training independent clinician-investigators?

By emphasizing broader clinical exposure, including microbiology and virology rotations

Fellowship curricula are tailored to the intended career outcome. A program designed to produce general community consultants prioritizes broad, robust clinical exposure, ensuring the specialist can manage a wide variety of infectious scenarios encountered outside of highly specialized academic subspecialty teams; this often means emphasizing rotations in core areas like microbiology and virology. In contrast, a fellowship aiming to create independent clinician-investigators will explicitly structure time blocks to foster research independence, often including mandatory time dedicated to statistical training or learning the mechanics of grant writing for agencies like the NIH, aligning with the long-term timelines of research funding.