Nephrology has an active fellowship program for both practice-bound physicians (two years) and those with an interest in academic nephrology (three years). 

We are currently accepting applications for the two positions we have to offer via the ERAS website for 2009. The deadline for applying will be the end of January 08. We will be participating in the match this year.  Visas we are currently accepting are J1s.   

Adult Services

The clinical training program in nephrology covers a full array of experiences in dialysis, renal transplantation, hypertension, inpatient service, consultation service, and outpatient consultative and long-term follow-up activities. All modalities of dialysis are available, including chronic hemodialysis, acute hemodialysis hemofiltration, chronic ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD), chronic cyclic peritoneal dialysis (CCPD), and continuous venoveno hemofiltration dialysis (CVVHD). A cadre of fifty dialysis patients are followed long-term. Additionally, dialysis is performed as necessary for patients undergoing kidney transplant and for transients visiting the area. The kidney transplant service is active performing 100 kidney transplant per year. This program also performs combined kidney/pancreas transplants and liver transplants as well. The inpatient and consultation service are combined into one active service that follows an inpatient census of 15 to 20 patients. The outpatient clinic sees a broad spectrum of clinical renal diseases, including renal stones, renal tubular acidosis, glomerular diseases, hematuria/proteinuria, chronic renal insufficiency, nephrolithiasis and complicated hypertension. Fellowship training experience includes the opportunity to perform procedures to gain vascular access for acute dialysis and kidney biopsies, which are performed with ultrasound guidance.

Residents rotate on the service as an elective, and fourth-year medical students also rotate through the service three at a time. Medical students and residents in training at other institutions are also welcome to rotate on the nephrology service.

The consultation service encounters patients with a wide variety of diseases as typically encountered in a tertiary referral center. These include various fluid and electrolytes problems. Hereditary renal disease, systemic diseases affecting the kidney, (Wegener’s, SLE), etc., glomerulonephritis, interstitial nephritis, diabetic nephropathy, acute and chronic renal failure, hypertension and hypertension emergencies, transplant-related problems, and patients with renal lesions caused by immunologic reactions to drugs or by nephrotoxins.

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