ACGME Fellowship

Clinical Training

The Fellowship Program in Nephrology is carried out at two institutions. The parent program is located at the University of Chicago Medical Center in the Hyde Park neighborhood on the University of Chicago campus. Our affiliate program is situated at the Endeavor Health System in Evanston, IL. The Section of Nephrology is affiliated with 6 large hemodialysis units, with a busy transitional care unit program, along with a Home Dialysis Unit, in the Hyde Park vicinity.
The Section operates three internationally renowned multidisciplinary Programs: The Hereditary Kidney Disease/Polycystic Kidney Disease program involving nephrologists, geneticists, genetic counselors, hepatologists, neurosurgeons and dieticians, the Kidney Stone Program that involves urologists, nephrologists and dieticians and the Critical Care Nephrology program involving critical care experts in pulmonary, surgery and anaesthesia. These programs allow trainees the opportunity to learn clinical management from renowned experts as well as to participate in cutting edge funded research in these areas of subspeciality interest. In addition, there is a multidisciplinary NIH-funded vascular access program that draws on the expertise of interventional radiology, vascular surgery, general surgery, clinical outcomes strategists and the nephrology faculty. The Department of Pathology has two renal pathologists who utilize in house state-of-the-art techniques and work closely with our fellows and faculty. There is also a dedicated glomerulonephritis, onco-nephrology and hypertension clinic where fellows can pursue further specialized training.

Clinics

Fellows attend two half-day continuity clinics when they are on the outpatient rotation, where they learn to evaluate patients with chronic kidney disease, complicated hypertension, proteinuria, hematuria, kidney stones, glomerulonephritis, hereditary kidney disease, metabolic bone disease and transplantation. The continuity clinic is a fellow-run clinic where the fellows are the primary nephrology providers for their patients under faculty supervision. There are three dedicated faculty staffing this clinic. Ongoing weekly journal article discussions focusing on ambulatory nephrology begin in the fall of the calendar year. In addition, fellows see patients in the renal transplant and donor evaluation clinics while on the inpatient transplant service, and during their outpatient blocks. Fellows also have the opportunity to work in our subspecialty clinics including the hereditary kidney disease clinic, kidney stone clinic, resistant hypertension clinic, and the glomerulonephritis clinic.
Each fellow is assigned to an outpatient hemodialysis unit with a dedicated medical director and the home dialysis medical director with whom they rotate weekly during each of their outpatient blocks during both years of their fellowship.