Other ID Learning Resources
This page provides easy links to some of the digital ID oriented educational material available online! Many of these are referenced in previous Consult Notes and episodes as well. Send a message for suggestions on additional resources that should be included on this page!
In addition to Febrile, find more ID-related podcasts available here!
The Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (PIDS) has several resources for ID trainees on their website:
Transplant & Immunocompromised Host ID (need to log-in, but lots of great items such as the Transplant ID modules and virtual clinical case conferences)
There are other available toolkits as well as the PIDS Podcast
Click for access to resources produced and curated by the Teaching and Learning Resources Workgroup of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)
The IDEA platform (Infectious Diseases Education & Assessment) has four curricula:
These are free educational websites from the University of Washington that are great resources! You can also obtain CME credit and track your progress if you login.
The Stanford University HIV Drug Resistance Database is a public resource for resistance data. You can find drug resistance summaries, plug in your genotype results into HIVdb, and more
ID Fellows Cup is a fun question competition featuring ID board-style questions. Follow Twitter for updates and sign-ups
The IDSA Academy is a platform with the IDSA Maintenance of Certification (MOC) modules and the IDSA Practice Exam as well as the Core and Advanced Antimicrobial Stewardship Curriculums
ID Images (eMicrobes: A Digital Library for Learning Infectious Diseases) is a website that houses interesting and educational images and cases, including those from Fellows’ Workshops at IDWeek every year.
DPDx is a website developed and maintained by the CDC’s Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria. Check here for more info on parasitic diseases, but there are also excellent monthly case studies too!
Parasites Without Borders is an educational resource on parasitic diseases. There are a ton of parasitic disease lectures available on the website or Youtube in particular!
These Gorgas Case of the Weeks are available from the Gorgas Courses in Clinical Tropical Medicine via the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Cayetano Heredia University in Lima, Peru.
This Mycology Online site from University of Adelaide provides information on the identification and management of fungal infections with a range of educational materials
Another online mycology resource is Doctor Fungus, from the Mycoses Study Group Education and Research Consortium (MSGERC)
Access the Red Book Online
Check out various guidelines websites at these links
IDSA/AASLD HCV Guidance: Recommendations for Testing, Managing, and Treating Hepatitis C
Some other miscellaneous ID blogs and websites
HIV and ID Observations from Paul Sax on NEJM Journal Watch: An ongoing dialogue on HIV/AIDS, infectious diseases, all matters medical, and some not so medical
IDStewardship/LearnAntibiotics.com is a pharmacy-centric website/blog. There are some additional items that require membership purchase. Can follow in Twitter as well