Additional Program Enhancements

In the face of the changing landscape of Graduate Medical Education, our fellowship continually evolves to ensure that we remain one of the top fellowship programs in the country. Additional strengths of the program are highlighted below.

• Each training site carries a non-teaching service component, functioning without fellow involvement. Though our fellows still have full experiences in bread and butter nephrology, this ensures that they also have the time to enrich their knowledge with more complex cases.
• A Night Call Rotation ensures that the daytime consult fellows are not burdened by overnight call.
• Though procedure support is available for placing temporary dialysis catheters and performing kidney biopsies at our teaching hospitals, fellows still have the opportunity to gain competency with these procedures if they desire.
• A structured Mentor Program exists to ensure that each trainee fulfills his/her maximum potential. The program provides a timeline during which each fellow develops from an early learner adjusting to a new training environment to a competent nephrologist. There& is a focus on career development starting early on in fellowship and throughout. The program is tailored to the individual needs of the trainee and is divided into various tracks (academic, private practice, interventional nephrology, and transplant nephrology tracks) as he/she differentiates. 
• A pocketbook outlining the major concepts of nephrology is provided to each fellow. This Field Guide to the Kidney provides each trainee with a basic structure upon which to develop their fund of knowledge (Think back to your Organic Chemistry course notes!).
• The Fellow Social Event Fund supports twice monthly outings by our trainees in order to support comradery and wellness.