Curriculum

With 180 didactic and case-based conferences throughout the academic year, our graduates are well prepared for successful careers in academia and private practice. Our fellows become skilled in placement of non-tunneled dialysis catheters, native and transplant kidney biopsies as well as histopathological interpretation of these biopsies.

We are proud to have 100% pass rate on the American Board of Internal Medicine Nephrology Board Examination (ABIM) since inception of this fellowship program in 2008.

Curriculum Highlights

• Core curriculum lectures: Presented by faculty to cover fundamental topics in nephrology.
• Leadership seminars: Help transform fellows into future leaders in field of nephrology.
• Conferences: Monthly interactive clinical pathology sessions led by kidney pathologists, and morbidity and mortality conferences with focus on the goal of improved patient care
• Journal club: Monthly interactive session led by fellows to evaluate and critique recent articles in field of nephrology.
• Board review: Sessions led by faculty to help fellows prepare for ABIM Nephrology Board Examination.
• Simulation sessions: Help fellows master placement of non-tunneled dialysis catheters, native renal biopsy, point-of-care ultrasound.
• Moonlighting: May be permitted during second year of fellowship with adequate academic standing and approval by the program director.
• Continuity clinics: In addition to core rotations, fellows have the opportunity to manage their own ambulatory patients in their own continuity clinics to address chronic kidney disease.