General Organization of the Fellowship Years

First Year of Renal Fellowship

1. Outpatient 1 – 1 month
a) Daily Clinics, Monday-Friday
b) Renal Transplant Clinics: Monday and Thursday
c) Assist on-call physician with outpatient renal transplant management (daily).
d) General Pediatric Nephrology: Tuesday and Wednesday
e) Continuity Clinic (fellow panel): ½ day per week Tuesday or Wednesday morning
f) Urgent visits: Friday
g) No inpatient call obligation

2. Outpatient 2 - 1 month
a) Daily Clinics: Monday-Thursday
b) Renal Transplant Clinics: Monday and Thursday
c) Assist on call physician with outpatient renal transplant management (2 days/week)
d) General Pediatric Nephrology Tuesday or Wednesday
e) Continuity Clinic (fellow panel): ½ day per week Tuesday or Wednesday morning
f) Dialysis: ½ day per week, Tuesday or Wednesday afternoon (one attending dedicated to dialysis teaching during this month)
g) No inpatient call obligation

3. Outpatient 3 – 1 month
a) Special Outpatient Rotation
b) Pediatric Nephrology Clinics 1½ days a week
c) Renal Transplant Clinic: Thursday
d) Continuity Clinic: ½ day per week, Tuesday or Wednesday morning
e) Radiology – 3 days
f) Nuclear Medicine – 3 days
g) Interventional Radiology – 3 days
h) Dialysis – 3 days (mechanics of dialysis)
i) On call 2 weekends/month
j) Weekend First call Friday and Sunday

4. Inpatient 1– 3 months
a) Continuity Clinic: ½ day per week, Tuesday or Wednesday morning
b) On call every other weekend
c) First call Monday Wednesday Thursday where weekends are off.
d) First call Monday Wednesday and Friday when on weekends

5. Inpatient 2 – 2 months
a) Continuity Clinic: ½ day per week, Tuesday or Wednesday morning
b) On call one weekend/month.
c) First call Monday Wednesday Thursday where weekends are off.
d) First call Monday Wednesday and Friday when on weekends

6. Research 1 – 3 months
a) Continuity Clinic: ½ day per week, Tuesday or Wednesday morning
b) On call one out of every three weekends.
c) Weekend First call Friday and Sunday

7. Renal Pathology – 2 weeks
a) Continuity Clinic: ½ day per week, Tuesday or Wednesday morning
b) On call every other weekend

8. Pediatric Urology –  2 weeks
a) Continuity Clinic: ½ day per week, Tuesday or Wednesday morning
b) On call one weekend/month
c) Weekend First call Friday and Sunday

9. Expectations
a) Attendance at one large Nephrology meeting

First Year Totals: Outpatient/Renal Pathology and Pediatric Urology: 4 months, Inpatient: 5 months, Research: 2 months, Vacation: 1 month (taken during research and outpatient clinic times). Vacation may be taken in 1-2 week blocks.

Second Year of Nephrology Fellowship

1. Research 1 – 8 months
a) Continuity Clinic: ½ day per week, Tuesday or Wednesday morning
b) On call one out of every three weekends.
b) Weekend First call Friday and Sunday

2. Research 2 - 2 months
a) Renal Transplant Clinic: ½ day per week, Thursday
b) Continuity Clinic: ½ day per week, Tuesday or Wednesday morning
c) On call one out of every three weekends.
d) Weekend First call Friday and Sunday

3. Inpatient 3 – 2 months
a) Team Leader (during rounds)
b) On call one weekend/month.
c) Weekend First call Friday and Sunday

4. Expectations
a) Attends 2 Nephrology meetings
b) Presents research at one meeting
c) One case-report type publication
d) One peer reviewed publication

Second Year Totals: Outpatient: 0 months, Inpatient: 2 months, Research: 7 months, Vacation: 1 month (taken during research times.

Third Year of Pediatric Renal Fellowship

1. Research 2 – 1 month
a) Renal Transplant Clinic: ½ day per week, Thursday
b) Continuity Clinic: ½ day per week, Tuesday or Wednesday morning
c) On call one out of every three weekends.
d) Weekend First call Friday and Sunday

2. Research 3 – 7 months
a) Continuity Clinic: ½ day per week, Tuesday or Wednesday morning
b) On call one weekend per month.
c) Weekend First call Friday and Sunday

3. Research 4- 3 months
a) No Continuity Clinic expectations
b) On call one weekend per month.
c) Weekend First call Friday and Sunday

4. Inpatient 3 – 1 month
a) Team Leader (during rounds)
b) On call one weekend/month.
c) Weekend First call Friday and Sunday

5. Expectations
a) Attends 2 Nephrology meetings
b) Presents research at both meetings
c) Two peer reviewed publications
d) Involvement in one national organization (UNOS, NAPTRCS, etc)

Third Year Totals: Outpatient: 0 months, Inpatient: 1 month, Research: 11 months, Vacation: 1 month (taken during research times).