St. Michael's Hospital Kidney Transplant Fellowship
Fellowship Title:
Kidney Transplant - St. Michael's Hospital site specific
Division:
Nephrology
Fellowship Type:
Clinical
Supervisor:
Dr. Darren Yuen
Duration:
1-year
Application Open and Close Date:
November to December of the year prior to start date
Anticipated Start Date(s):
July 1st
Number of position(s) per year:
1-2
Description:
The St. Michael’s Hospital transplant fellow will complete a 1-year fellowship designed to provide in-depth training in transplant nephrology. Fellows will gain experience in: (1) evaluation of living donors (including ABO incompatible donors and kidney paired exchange) and deceased donors (including expanded criteria donors and donation after cardiac death), (2) evaluation of potential kidney transplant recipients, (3) perioperative kidney transplant management and immunosuppression, and (4) evaluation and management of short- and long-term transplant complications.
The fellowship is generally divided into thirteen 4-week blocks:
9 blocks of transplant in-patient ward service (including perioperative transplant care and management of post-transplant complications)
4 blocks reserved for research time, and exposure to renal transplant radiology (including biopsies), renal pathology, and HLA lab
The fellow will also participate in pre-transplant recipient assessment, living donor assessment, post-transplant, and failing transplant clinics at St. Michael’s Hospital. They will also participate in monthly 1-hr group case discussions around pre-transplant recipient assessments, as well as a monthly 1-hr group combined radiology/transplant surgery/nephrology rounds.
St. Michael’s Hospital is the second largest renal transplant program in Canada, performing over 100 kidney transplants per year. Our post-transplant clinic follows roughly 1800 prevalent kidney transplant recipients, and our pre-transplant clinics service a wide ESRD catchment area encompassing much of the province of Ontario. The Transplant Division is composed of 3 full-time transplant nephrologists, 2 nephrologists performing living donor assessments, and a nurse practitioner. The Transplant program is part of a larger 11 member Nephrology Division at St. Michael’s Hospital. Transplant patients are admitted to the Nephrology ward at St. Michael’s Hospital. The Division runs a full academic program, including Monday Case Rounds, Tuesday Nephrology Rounds, Wednesday afternoon University of Toronto City-Wide Rounds, and Thursday General Nephrology Teaching rounds.
