Newest doctors shun infectious diseases specialty

Despite its central role in the COVID pandemic, the infectious diseases specialty saw 44% of its training programs for doctors go unfilled.

The pandemic put infectious diseases doctors in the spotlight. The ‘Fauci Effect’ raised the number of fellowship applicants in 2020, but this year almost half of the training programs went unfilled.

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Pien Huang