Fellow - Microbiology

5 days ago


Kolkata, India Tata Medical Center Full time

**Job advertisement: Fellowship in**
**Clinical and Molecular Microbiology at Tata Medical Center, Kolkata**

**How can I apply? **

Resources, Tata Medical Center, 14 MAR (EW), New Town, Kolkata - 700160. West

**Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about the Clinical and Molecular Microbiology**
**Fellowship program at Tata Medical Center in Kolkata, India:
**What is Clinical Microbiology and how is it different from laboratory based**
**diagnostic microbiology? **

**Clinical Microbiology includes**:

- **Diagnostic Microbiology**:

- **Antimicrobial stewardship**:

- **Hospital Infection Prevention and Control**

**What is Molecular Microbiology? **
**Laboratory Microbiology involves diagnosis of bacterial, viral, fungal and**

**parasitic infections using molecular techniques such as PCR, DNA sequencing**
**and others. **

**Because of the rapidity, high sensitivity and specificity of molecular**
**microbiology techniques it is has emerged as an important diagnostic tool in**
**medical microbiology
**Medical microbiologists who after post-graduation/ senior residency/ middle**
**level career would like to gain additional knowledge and skills in**
**antimicrobial stewardship, hospital infection control, diagnostic stewardship**
**and molecular techniques in medical microbiology **

**Essential qualifications: MBBS plus MD/DNB in Microbiology **

**A valid medical registration**

**What is the duration of this fellowship course? **

**The fellowship is for two years (24 months)**

**How is the fellow going to be evaluated during the course? **

**There is going to be two written and viva examinations at the end of each year **
**Progression from year 1 to year 2 will depend on**:

- **Exam performance**

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- **Performance during routine duty**

**What is the fellow expected to learn during the two years training? **
**Diagnostic stewardship **
**Antimicrobial stewardship **

**Infection Prevention and Control **
**Molecular techniques in Diagnostic Microbiology **
**Infections in bone-marrow transplant settings
- diagnosis/ management **
**Communication skills **

**Management skills **
**Biosafety **
**Quality control and quality management systems
**What are the facilities available for training? **

**Tata Medical Center is a 437 bed oncology hospital **
**It has state of the art diagnostic and clinical care facilities in Clinical**

**Hematology, Medical Oncology, Pediatric Oncology, Surgical Oncology,**
**Radiation Oncology, Palliative Care, Nuclear Medicine, Radio-diagnosis,**
**Endoscopy services, Laboratory Sciences Services (Hematology, Cytogenetics,**
**Molecular Genetics, Histopathology, Biochemistry, Clinical Pathology, Flow**
**Cytometry, HLA typing) **

**Microbiology department has the following sections**:

- **Bacteriology**:

- **Virology**:

- **Serology**:

- **Parasitology**:

- **Mycology**:

- **Mycobacteriology**:

- **Environmental Microbiology **

**HIS (Hospital Information System) and LIS (Laboratory Information Systems)**
**developed by the Tata Consultancy Services**

**The fellow can learn about the following equipment/systems/ procedures in**
**Diagnostic Microbiology: **

**BactAlert system for automated blood culture and Mycobacterial culture **
**Vitek system for automated bacterial and yeast identification and**

**antimicrobial susceptibility testing **
**Type II A2 biosafety cabinets and laminar air flow cabinets **
**Broth Micro-dilution Testing system
- for colistin and antifungal susceptibility **
**Direct Susceptibility test from positive blood cultures **
**LED fluorescence microscope and compound light microscope **
**Lyophilizer, minus 80C freezer and minus 20C freezer**

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**What facilities are there for Molecular Microbiology? **
**Automated nucleic acid extraction systems **
**Refrigerated centrifuge **
**Nanodrop, spectrophotometer, Qubit fluorometer, Tapestation, Ion Chef for**

**sample preparation in next generation sequencing **
**End point PCR systems **
**Gel electrophoresis and gel documentation systems **
**Real-time PCR systems **
**Isothermal amplification system: Abbott ID Now **
**CBNAAT systems: Qiastat, BioFire, GeneXpert **
**Hybrid Capture Assay system **
**Digital Droplet PCR system **

**Sanger sequencer: ABI 3500 **
**Next generation sequencers: MiSeq (illumina), Ion Gene Studio S5, Ion Torrent**

**PGM**

**How is Clinical Microbiology and Infection Prevention and Control training imparted**
**to fellows? **

**Ward rounds including patient assessment at bed side **
**Positive blood culture communication and clinical liaison **
**AMSP and diagnostic stewardship ward rounds in Intensive Care Unit **
**Patient referrals to Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
**What are the common infectious diseases/ clinical syndromes encountered in this**
**training center? **

**Meningitis
- encephalitis syndrome **
**Respiratory Tract infection **
**Blood stream infection **
**Gastro-intestinal infection **


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