Background: Training of infectious disease (ID) specialists is structured on classical clinical microbiology training in\r\nTurkey and ID specialists work as clinical microbiologists at the same time. Hence, this study aimed to determine\r\nthe clinical skills and knowledge required by clinical microbiologists.\r\nMethods: A cross-sectional study was carried out between June 1, 2010 and September 15, 2010 in 32 ID\r\ndepartments in Turkey. Only patients hospitalized and followed up in the ID departments between January-June\r\n2010 who required consultation with other disciplines were included.\r\nResults: A total of 605 patients undergoing 1343 consultations were included, with pulmonology, neurology,\r\ncardiology, gastroenterology, nephrology, dermatology, haematology, and endocrinology being the most frequent\r\nconsultation specialties. The consultation patterns were quite similar and were not affected by either the nature of\r\ninfections or the critical clinical status of ID patients.\r\nConclusions: The results of our study show that certain internal medicine subdisciplines such as pulmonology,\r\nneurology and dermatology appear to be the principal clinical requisites in the training of ID specialists, rather\r\nthan internal medicine as a whole.
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