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Massachusetts General Hospital Medical Microbiology

Fellowship · Boston, MA

Sponsored by Mass General Brigham · Director John Branda

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Class size
2
Visas
J-1, H-1B
PGY-5 salary
$102k2026 to 2027

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  • Sponsors H-1B visas. Most programs sponsor only J-1 visas.
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Getting in

How it chooses

  • Recruitment opens in April two years ahead, with no deadline, and positions are offered on a rolling basis until they are filled.

Where its fellows trained

  • Brown University
  • Mass General Brigham

Training

2 training sites.

Months at each site

  • Clinical Microbiology Laboratory (Massachusetts General Hospital)12 mo

Research

100% of current fellows have a paper since 2023

2 of 2, 10 papers between them

  • HIV Research and Treatment
  • Vector-borne infectious diseases
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing

People

Leadership

  • John BrandaProgram Director, MGH
  • Sarah TurbettAssociate Director, Medical Microbiology Fellowship Training Program
  • Eric RosenbergDirector, Microbiology

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Faculty, fellows, graduates and the people fellows publish with.

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  • Pathology-Anatomic and ClinicalPositions: 76
  • Selective PathologyPositions: 3
  • Selective PathologyPositions: 4

Place

Summers reach 82°, winters fall to 24°. About 45 inches of snow a year.

Weather by month

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Commute

1.7M people live within 20 minutes of Clinical Microbiology Laboratory (Massachusetts General Hospital) by car with no traffic.

Cost of living

A one bedroom rents for about $2,610 a month within 10 miles of Clinical Microbiology Laboratory (Massachusetts General Hospital).

Hazards

  • Lightning
  • Heat waves
  • River flooding
  • Cold waves