Nephrology

This elective is an excellent learning opportunity for residents who are planning on careers in general or subspecialty pediatrics. The rotation offers a terrific balance between hands-on patient care time and unstructured time that can be devoted to independent reading or one-on-one teaching sessions. The focus is primarily on our outpatient clinics, but residents can perform inpatient consults if interested.  Residents will assume primary responsibility for the patients they see along with assistance from the attending nephrologist. In clinic this usually involves seeing 2-3 clinic patients per half day. For residents who would prefer to focus on inpatient consults, this involves rounding on 1-3 consults.

As suggested above, the rotation is flexible and can be tailored to an individual’s interests. Want to learn more about immunology and immunosuppression? Spend more time in renal transplant clinic. Particularly interested in dialysis? Come round with us in our dialysis unit on the 1 st floor. Planning on being a general pediatrician and would prefer to never see a transplant or dialysis patient again? Terrific, come spend time in our general nephrology clinics where you can learn about asymptomatic hematuria, recurrent UTIs, vesicoureteral reflux, hypertension, and proteinuria.

Nephrology Rotation Summary