Thank you for your interest in the Nephrology Fellowship at Baystate Medical Center-Tufts University School of Medicine. Baystate Medical Center serves a population of approximately one million patients from Southern Vermont, New Hampshire, Eastern New York, Northern Connecticut and Western Massachusetts.  Our fellowship is designed to educate fellows to become outstanding nephrology clinicians or clinician educators, capable of becoming medical directors of a dialysis facility or clinical faculty members in academia or outstanding private practice nephrologists.  Our Program emphasizes 18 months of exceptional clinical training and includes 6 months of clinical nephrology research in the second year.  Subspecialty fellows will receive comprehensive training in all facets of inpatient nephrology.  This will occur while on three major rotations:  Inpatient Consultations, Chronic Dialysis/ESRD, and Transplantation.

Fellowship Director: Gregory Braden, MD

Fellowship Coordinator: Gail Wall email: Gail.Wall@baystatehealth.org phone: 413.794.2613

Program & Department Statistics

• Length of fellowship: 2 years
• Number of fellows per year: 2
• Number of faculty: 10

Baystate Statistics

• Number of hospital beds:  653
• Number of residency programs: 10
• Number of fellowship programs:  16

Fellow Benefits & Facilities

• Salary -  PG4: $61,800,  PG5: $64,400
• 4 weeks vacation/year, meal subsidy, free parking
• Disability/Malpractice/Health/Life Insurance
• First and second year fellows share their own office
• Each fellow has his or her own computer
• Comprehensive electronic medical record
• Well-supplied, on-campus hospital library with 8 librarians and robust e-medicine resources (Up-to-Date, Ovid, etc.)
• Access to Tufts online library

Curriculum Information

• PG4:  Inpatient consultations (6 months); inpatient dialysis/transplant (4 months); outpatient transplant (2 months)
• PG5:  Inpatient consultations (2 months); inpatient dialysis/transplant (2 months); outpatient transplant  (2 months); research (6 months)
• Weekly Conferences:  Transplant, Pathology, Renal Grand Rounds, Core Curriculum Lectures
• Monthly Conferences:  Renal Biopsy, Basic Science Physiology Review, Patient Care Review, Journal Club, and Research