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Program Goals - Transplant Nephrology Fellowship Program
The Transplant Nephrology Fellow has a crucial role in the assessment and management of our allograft recipients during the evaluation process, transplant, and postoperative management phase.
The Transplant Fellow (with supervision provided by the Staff Transplant Nephrologist) will be responsible for the evaluation of transplant recipients, discussion during transplant selection meeting, perioperative care, performance of allograft biopsies, and follow up in our outpatient clinic.
The fellow will provide co-management responsibility with the Transplant Surgeon from the perioperative through the outpatient period for all kidney and pancreas transplant recipients.
The fellow (as an integral part of the transplant team) will be responsible for the selection and administration of induction and maintenance immunosuppression according with accepted protocols in our institution.
By the completion of training, the fellow with be well versed in all the indications, contraindications and the potential side effects of using various immunosuppressive agents.
The educational goal is to provide the fellow with the knowledge and skills for the care of kidney, kidney pancreas and other recipients of solid organs with chronic kidney disease in an academic environment with patients of different social and ethnic backgrounds.
Fellow should be able to:
- gather all pertinent data, convey information to the transplant team and stablish a comprehensive assessment and plan
- assist in the selection of transplant recipients and preoperative management
- demonstrate the ability to diagnose and treat common medical and surgical post-operative complications, including delayed graft function
- provide medical management of rejection, performance of kidney biopsies, dialysis modalities, infectious complications
The fellow should be able to:
- demonstrate knowledge in the core aspects of kidney transplantation described in our core curriculum
- demonstrate progressive improvement during the training program until he/she is deemed competent for the practice without supervision
The fellow should:
- attend all the didactics, transplant selection meetings, patient care meetings, patient safety (morbidity and mortality) meetings and the conferences by visiting professors
- attend a CME activity at the national or regional level (strongly encouraged)
The fellow should:
- demonstrate excellent skills to communicate with patients and family members of different financial, age, race and cultural backgrounds
- show the ability to communicate with all the members of the transplant team, referring nephrologists, consultants, residents, medical students and other allied health professionals
The fellow will demonstrate compassion and understanding to a group of diverse group of patients. The transplant fellow will be a role model showing leadership skills for other trainees and members of the transplant team.
Evidence–based medicine will be a critical part of our training for our future transplant nephrologist. Daily patient care will be complemented with literature review to consolidate knowledge.
The fellow will learn to interact with all the members of the transplant team, the departments involved with the care of our transplant recipients including radiology and renal pathology, the interaction with the regulatory bodies in the country (UNOS, CMS), our performance outcomes and the strategic plan to strengthen patient safety patient satisfaction and allograft survival.
