We offer an ACGME-accredited, 2-year Nephrology Fellowship Program with 2 positions per year.

Our program emphasizes 18 months of exceptional clinical training and includes 6 months of clinical research in the second year.  Fellows receive comprehensive training in all facets of inpatient nephrology while on the 3 major rotations:  Inpatient Consultation, Chronic Dialysis/ESRD and Transplantation.

Baystate Medical Center serves a population of approximately one million patients from Southern Vermont, New Hampshire, Eastern New York, Northern Connecticut and Western Massachusetts. (See Baystate Medical Center Fast Facts)

Program Highlights

• A state-of-the-art, 8 station inpatient acute hemodialysis unit located on the same floor as inpatient renal & transplant, allowing geographic ease

• Approximately 250 native kidney biopsies & over 150 transplant renal biopsies are performed each year under ultrasound guidance

• Placement of temporary vascular access lines in the internal jugular vein and/or femoral vein will be learned both with & without ultrasound guidance

• Develop skills necessary to manage complications associated with access failure, acute infections, malnutrition, anemia, metabolic bone disease & cardiovascular complications associated with ESRD

• Learn to evaluate & manage acute rejection, using novel techniques such as plasmapheresis and state-of-the-art chemotherapeutic protocols

• Currently more than 30 on-going clinical trials and research skills will be learned in both fellowship years

• 3 - 4 weekly teaching conferences