Clinical Training
Fellows receive their clinical training equally dispersed between four hospitals on the Medical Center Campus: University of Louisville Hospital, the Veterans Administration Medical Center, UofL Hospital - Jewish Campus, and Norton Hospital.
Weekly outpatient clinics and Kidney Disease Program dialysis rounds complement inpatient rounding.
Our clinical rotations and clinics include substantial transplant experience; treatment of acute and chronic kidney disease; management of chronic dialysis including Incenter Hemodialysis, Peritoneal Dialysis and Home Hemodialysis, apheresis, hypertension; Interventional Nephrology and renal replacement therapy.
A faculty member is always on call to support fellows in patient care.
Weekly didactic lectures and conferences supplement the clinical knowledge gained in the wards.
Fellowship Block Schedule
Rotation | 1st year | 2nd year | 3rd year (optional) |
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Transplantation (core) | 2 months | 1-2 months | 12 months |
Outpatient Hemodialysis (core) | 2 months | 2 months | 12 months |
Inpatient Private (core) | 2 months | 1-2 months | 12 months |
Inpatient Public (core) | 2 months | 1-2 months | 12 months |
Interventional (core) | 1 month | variable | |
Pathology (core) | 1 month | variable | |
Research (core) | 1 month | variable | 12 months |
ICU Nephrology (elective) | 1 month | variable | |
Geriatric Nephrology (elective) | 1 month | variable | |
Pediatric Nephrology (elective) | 1 month | variable | |
Ambulatory Nephrology (elective) | 1 month | variable | |
Glomerular Disease (elective) | 1 month | variable | 12 months |
Intensive Dialysis (elective) | 1 month | variable | 12 months |
Interventional (elective) | 1 month | variable | 12 months |