Training Sites
All fellows rotate through the major clinical training sites: Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington Medical Center, and the VA Puget Sound Healthcare System. Together, these hospitals have over 1,000 beds and 45,000 admissions annually.
Fellows also spend time rounding in the outpatient dialysis units at the Northwest Kidney Centers.
Clinical Rotations
Nephrology Inpatient Consultative Services: 7-8 months (first year); 5-6 months (second year)
Kidney Transplantation: 2 months (first year)
Chronic Dialysis: 1 month (first year); 2 months (second year)
Elective Rotation: 1-2 months (first year); 4-5 months (second year)
Ambulatory Clinics
We curate your ambulatory clinic experience to your special interests. Below are the numerous clinics that are available:
- Cardionephrology Clinic
- Diabetes Kidney Clinic
- General Nephrology Continuity Clinics
- Genetic Diseases of the Kidney Clinic
- Glomerular Disease Clinic
- Hemodialysis/Home Hemodialysis/Peritoneal Dialysis
- Hypertension Clinics
- Kidney Heart Clinic
- Kidney Liver Clinic
- Nephrolithiasis Clinic
- Onco-Nephrology Clinic
- Palliative Clinic
- Pre & Post Kidney Transplantation Clinic
- Renal Pathology
Conferences
Educational conferences are an integral component of our training program, and run weekly and monthly at each of our hospital sites.
Fellow Tutorials
Year-round tutorials (Monday afternoons) are designed to cover and supplement core components of the ACGME Medical Knowledge and Procedural Competencies.
Summer Lecture Series
- 8-week summer dialysis series for first- and second-year fellows, Friday mornings
- Kidney biopsy simulation
- Biopsy labs
- Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS)
- Hands-on CRRT and HD machine training, NKC water treatment
Professor Rounds and Journal Club
Weekly clinical site-based conferences which provide a venue for complex case discussions, journal club, morbidity & mortality, and quality improvement projects.
Nephrology Grand Rounds / Biopsy Conference
Formal scholarly and case-based presentations involving fellows, faculty, and visiting scholars, and attended by the Division of Nephrology, Pediatric Nephrology, and Kidney Pathology.