Master Infectious Disease from Pathogen to Patient
A clinically rigorous curriculum built for healthcare professionals who need to think, diagnose, and treat at the level of an ID specialist — grounded in real cases, evidence-based protocols, and the full spectrum from microbiology to outbreak response.
My goal isn't to hand you a protocol — it's to build the clinical reasoning that makes you reach for the right one, every time.— Dr. J Raymond ABK
What you'll learn
What you'll be able to do
- Accurately identify and differentiate bacterial, viral, fungal, and parasitic pathogens based on clinical presentation and diagnostic findings
- Apply evidence-based antimicrobial selection, dosing, and stewardship principles to real-world patient cases
- Interpret key diagnostic tools — cultures, sensitivities, PCR panels, and serology — to guide clinical decision-making
- Recognize and manage high-acuity infectious emergencies such as sepsis, meningitis, and necrotizing fasciitis
- Navigate infection control protocols and outbreak response frameworks in hospital and community settings
- Counsel patients and care teams on prevention strategies, vaccination schedules, and post-exposure prophylaxis
How it works
A school that adapts to you
This isn't a set of static videos. Every lesson is generated live and tuned to where you actually are.
We learn your level
A quick placement check tailors your starting point so you're never bored or lost.
Lessons adapt as you go
Each lesson is written for your pace and your goal, adjusting as your skills grow.
Your AI coach keeps you moving
Checkpoints, feedback, and gentle nudges turn progress into a real result.
The curriculum
What's inside your school
6 modules · 30 lessons
Foundations of Infectious Disease
Establishes the biological and immunological groundwork needed to understand how pathogens cause disease and how the host responds.
- 1.1Pathogen Classes: Bacteria, Viruses, Fungi, and ParasitesIncluded
- 1.2Host-Pathogen Dynamics and Virulence FactorsIncluded
- 1.3Innate and Adaptive Immunity in InfectionIncluded
- 1.4Routes of Transmission and the Chain of InfectionIncluded
- 1.5Principles of Fever, Inflammation, and Systemic ResponseIncluded
Clinical Microbiology and Diagnostic Mastery
Builds expertise in ordering, performing, and interpreting the full range of microbiological and molecular diagnostic tests.
- 2.1Blood, Urine, and Wound Cultures: Collection to ResultIncluded
- 2.2Gram Stain, Sensitivities, and Minimum Inhibitory ConcentrationsIncluded
- 2.3PCR Panels, Rapid Antigen Tests, and Molecular DiagnosticsIncluded
- 2.4Serological Testing and Antibody InterpretationIncluded
- 2.5Imaging and Biomarkers as Adjuncts to Microbiological DiagnosisIncluded
Antimicrobial Pharmacology and Stewardship
Delivers a rigorous grounding in antimicrobial drug classes, evidence-based selection, dosing, and stewardship principles.
- 3.1Antibiotic Classes: Mechanisms, Spectra, and Key Side EffectsIncluded
- 3.2Antiviral, Antifungal, and Antiparasitic AgentsIncluded
- 3.3PK/PD Principles: Dosing, Renal Adjustment, and Therapeutic Drug MonitoringIncluded
- 3.4Antimicrobial Resistance: Mechanisms and Clinical ImplicationsIncluded
- 3.5Antimicrobial Stewardship: De-escalation, Duration, and IV-to-Oral ConversionIncluded
Syndrome-Based Clinical Management
Applies diagnostic and treatment principles to the most common infectious disease syndromes encountered across clinical settings.
- 4.1Respiratory Infections: CAP, HAP, Influenza, and COVID-19Included
- 4.2Urinary Tract and Genitourinary InfectionsIncluded
- 4.3Skin, Soft Tissue, and Bone InfectionsIncluded
- 4.4CNS Infections: Meningitis, Encephalitis, and Brain AbscessIncluded
- 4.5Gastrointestinal and Intra-abdominal InfectionsIncluded
Infectious Disease Emergencies and High-Acuity Management
Prepares clinicians to rapidly recognize and aggressively manage the most dangerous, time-critical infectious presentations.
- 5.1Sepsis and Septic Shock: Recognition and Hour-1 BundleIncluded
- 5.2Necrotizing Fasciitis and Other Surgical Infectious EmergenciesIncluded
- 5.3Endocarditis, Bacteremia, and Intravascular Device InfectionsIncluded
- 5.4Infections in Immunocompromised Hosts: HIV, Transplant, and NeutropeniaIncluded
- 5.5Fever of Unknown Origin: Structured Diagnostic ApproachIncluded
Infection Control, Outbreak Response, and Prevention
Equips healthcare professionals to prevent transmission, respond to outbreaks, and counsel patients on evidence-based protection strategies.
- 6.1Standard and Transmission-Based Precautions in Healthcare SettingsIncluded
- 6.2Healthcare-Associated Infections: Prevention Bundles and SurveillanceIncluded
- 6.3Outbreak Investigation: Epidemiological Steps and ReportingIncluded
- 6.4Vaccination Schedules, Immunization Strategy, and Herd ImmunityIncluded
- 6.5Post-Exposure Prophylaxis, Travel Medicine, and Patient CounselingIncluded
Who it's for
Is this you?
Medical Students
Preparing for core rotations and shelf exams, they need a rigorous, case-grounded foundation in ID before stepping onto the wards.
Resident Physicians
Managing complex infectious presentations daily, they need to sharpen empiric reasoning, interpret diagnostics faster, and make defensible antimicrobial decisions.
Clinical Pharmacists
Driving antimicrobial stewardship programs, they need deep PK/PD fluency, resistance literacy, and the clinical context to optimize dosing and duration.
Nurses in Acute Care
Caring for septic and immunocompromised patients, they need to recognize infectious emergencies early and understand the protocols guiding the team's decisions.
Infection Preventionists
Responsible for HAI prevention and outbreak response, they need the epidemiological frameworks, surveillance principles, and precaution protocols this curriculum delivers.
Advanced Practice Providers
NPs and PAs managing infectious presentations independently need the diagnostic confidence and antimicrobial stewardship grounding to practice at the top of their scope.
Questions
Frequently asked
Your teacher
A note from your teacher
Dr. J Raymond ABK
If you're reading this, you've probably had that moment on rounds — a culture result comes back, sensitivities are pending, the patient is trending worse, and you need to make a call. Not eventually. Now. And you want your reasoning to be airtight.
That moment is exactly what this school was built for.
I've designed this curriculum around the reality that most healthcare professionals learn infectious disease in fragments — a block here, a pharmacology lecture there, a stewardship memo that arrives in your inbox after the fact. What's missing is an integrated framework: one that connects pathogen biology to diagnostic interpretation, diagnostic interpretation to treatment selection, and treatment selection to the stewardship principles that make your decisions defensible and your patient outcomes better.
That's the architecture of this school. We start with foundations — not as review for its own sake, but because understanding virulence factors and immune dynamics changes how you read a clinical presentation. We move through diagnostic mastery: how to collect, interpret, and act on cultures, Gram stains, MICs, PCR panels, and serology. Then pharmacology — taught the way it matters clinically, with PK/PD principles, renal adjustments, and resistance mechanisms woven directly into stewardship strategy. From there, syndrome-based management walks you through the full clinical landscape, followed by the high-acuity emergencies that demand your sharpest thinking and your fastest execution.
I want to be direct about what this school is not: it is not a quick-reference app, and it is not a shortcut. The depth is intentional. The case-driven structure is intentional. If you engage with this material the way it's designed to be engaged with — actively, critically, as a clinician building a durable mental model — you will think about infectious disease differently. You'll be the person on the team who knows why the ID consult recommended what they recommended, and who can apply that reasoning independently the next time.
You already have the clinical foundation. This school gives you the ID expertise to use it fully. I'm glad you're here — let's get to work.
— Dr. J Raymond ABK
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