Educational Experience - Transplant Nephrology Fellowship Program

• daily teaching rounds
• core curriculum lectures
• longitudinal outpatient clinics
• pre transplant and donor clinic
• patient safety conference (morbidity and Mortality)
• transplant selection meeting
• QAPI
• patient care meeting
• renal pathology conferences twice a week with Vanderbilt Department of Pathology

The curriculum is designed to provide a comprehensive review of the core topics in transplant nephrology. In addition to daily mentorship, review papers and input from all members of the transplant clinic will create the fund of knowledge for our trainee.

The curriculum is designed to provide a comprehensive review of the core topics in transplant nephrology. In addition to daily mentorship, review papers and input from all members of the transplant clinic will create the fund of knowledge for our trainee.

The supervising faculty member bears medical and legal responsibility for all final decisions relating to the management of potential transplant candidates, transplant recipients and complications related to patient care.

Supervising faculty will be committed to the educational goals and objectives of the transplant nephrology training program. Accordingly the schedule of the supervising faculty member will be adjusted to allow for protected time during teaching rotations for the supervision of the fellow in both the in-patient and out-patient settings. Teaching rounds will be approximately three hours per day.

If a conflict between service duties and educational activities occurs, the supervising faculty will be responsible for patient care activities and the fellow will be instructed to attend the educational conferences.

• Transplant immunology
• Pharmacology/immunosuppression
• Medical complications of transplantation
• Organ allocation
• Pretransplant evaluation of the recipient
• Pretransplant evaluation of the living donor
• Graft dysfunction
• Expected outcomes/risk factors special issues in pediatric renal transplantation
• Pregnancy and contraception
• Ethics of transplantation
• Pancreas transplantation
• Kidney transplantation in other solid organs transplant recipients
• Transplantation of ABO-incompatible and cross match incompatible individuals
• Paired kidney exchange program
• Business and administrative aspects of transplantation

• Ochsner Medical Library provides access to subspecialty journals and electronic media to assist the fellow in the preparation of journal clubs, case reports and renal biopsy conference. These can be accessed from any computer at Ochsner and can also be accessed remotely from home.
• At the beginning of the program the fellow will receive a memory card with the capacity to store multiple review articles covering the core topics of transplant nephrology.
• The fellow will have access to the renal core curriculum topics in the field of transplant nephrology.
• The transplant fellow is also encouraged to attend the general nephrology lectures. The transplant core curriculum will not interfere with the lecture schedule with general nephrology didactics.
• The program will cover expenses for a CME activity in the field of transplant nephrology.
• In the ASN learning distance program the fellow will have available for review core topics of transplant nephrology by national experts in the area.