{"id":322,"date":"2018-04-11T04:08:53","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T04:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.uthscsa.edu\/nephrology\/?page_id=322"},"modified":"2022-07-25T12:46:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T17:46:42","slug":"rotations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/nephrology\/fellowship\/fellows\/rotations\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\" id=\"wpb-content-root\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]A variety of inpatient and outpatient clinical rotations and a multitude of research and scholarly activities are designed to meet career needs.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Inpatient Rotations<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>University Hospital<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: a 456-bed teaching hospital in San Antonio, Texas. \u00a0UT Health SA exclusively partners with University Hospital to provide comprehensive medical care to the people of Bexar County. \u00a0We are also a tertiary referral center for the 22-county region of South Texas. Our patient population is comprised of 69% Hispanic and 7% African American and 7% Caucasians. \u00a0The rotations at UH provide the best opportunity to learn renal physiology in an active clinical setting; one gets to evaluate a patient with a pH of 6.9, serum sodium of 96 meq\/L, and another patient with 7.6 and 175 meq\/L respectively, on the same day. Inpatient nephrology services include:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">General Nephrology Consult Service<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2 fellows<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Acute and critical care nephrology consults <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Average 20-30 patients for service<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Intermediate Consult Service\n<ul>\n<li>1NP<\/li>\n<li>Sub-acute nephrology consults<\/li>\n<li>Average 5-10 patients<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Transplant Nephrology Consult Service<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1- fellow<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nephrology consults for all inpatient transplant services<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Average 10-15 patients for service<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Attend Monday AM and Thursday AM transplant outpatient clinics (located within UH)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>VA Consult Service<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: The South Texas Veterans Health Care System (STVHCS) Medical Service oversees all inpatient and subspecialty care medicine, as well as academic primary care for over 75,000 of the Nation&#8217;s Veterans enrolled at STVHCS. Medical Service clinics service over 60,000 new patients consults annually. Medical Service physicians also staff 10 ICU beds, 8 CCU, 118 ward, 6 bone marrow transplant and 7 research beds servicing over 5,000 admissions each year. Audie L. Murphy Memorial Veterans Hospital is located across the street from University Hospital and affiliated with UT Health SA. \u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1-2 fellows<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Acute and chronic inpatient nephrology and dialysis consults<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Average 10-15 patients<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>SAMMC consult service<\/strong>: formerly Brooke Army Medical Center, located at Fort Sam Houston and serving both active duty and retired military. \u00a0A 425-bed facility, it is the only Level I trauma center within the Department of Defense.\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1 fellow<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Acute and chronic inpatient nephrology and dialysis consults<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Average 10 patients <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Outpatient Rotations<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Continuity Clinics: <\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">fellows attend one mandatory continuity clinic every week alternatively at<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">University Hospital &#8211; Texas Diabetes Institute <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">VA General Nephrology Clinic <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dialysis Services<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hemodialysis: 4 University Health owned dialysis clinics located throughout San Antonio. \u00a0All of our dialysis units are 5 stars rated by Medicare.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Peritoneal Dialysis: Offered at our University Hospital NW dialysis clinic<\/span><\/li>\n<li><i><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Research<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: Each\u00a0 fellow can dedicate up to 4 months to work with research mentor who they identify during their first year. There are ample opportunities for research at the basic, translational and clinical levels. The division takes pride in its rich contribution to the research in the diabetes, acute kidney injury, aging, cardio-renal disease, fibrosis, and genetic basis of kidney disease. We are also major contributors and active in the NIH funded Kidney Precision Medicine Project- which is the future of renal medicine. We participate in multiple NIH consortia, individual and large multi-PI grants, \u00a0and industry sponsored clinical trials.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Sample year<\/h2>\n\n<table id=\"tablepress-5\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-5\" summary=\"Sample year.xlsx\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"row-1\">\n\t<th class=\"column-1\">4-weeks Block Rotation<\/th><th class=\"column-2\">1st Year (Blocks)<\/th><th class=\"column-3\">2nd Year (Blocks)<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr class=\"row-2\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">UH Acute Consult <\/td><td class=\"column-2\">3 - 4<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">2 - 3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-3\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">UH Transplant<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">1<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-4\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">VA Consult<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">2 - 3<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">1 - 2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-5\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">SAMMC Consult<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">0-2<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">0-2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-6\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Outpatient Transplant<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">1<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">0.5-1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-7\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Outpatient VA<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">1<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">0.5-1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-8\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Flex\/Research <\/td><td class=\"column-2\">1-2<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-9\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Night Float<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">2 -3 half-blocks<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">2 -3 half-blocks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n<p><!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;]<div class=\"panel outline\"><nav aria-label=\"Fellowship Program sub-navigation\" class=\"collapsible subnav\"><h2 class=\"close\">Fellowship Program<\/h2><ul id=\"menu-fellowship-program\" class=\"subnav leaf\" data-accordion-menu><li id=\"menu-item-2206\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2206\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/nephrology\/fellowship\/\">Program Overview<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-2222\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2222\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/nephrology\/fellowship\/tracks\/\">Fellowship Tracks<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-2207\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2207\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/nephrology\/fellowship\/fellows\/rotations\/\">Rotations<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-2213\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2213\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/nephrology\/fellowship\/salary-benefits\/\">Salary &amp; Benefits<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-2208\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2208\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/nephrology\/fellowship\/electives\/\">Electives<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-2209\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-has-children menu-item-2209\"><a href=\"#\">Additional Information<\/a>\n<ul class=\"sub-menu\">\n\t<li id=\"menu-item-2211\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2211\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/nephrology\/fellowship\/fellows\/\">Current and Past Fellows<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li id=\"menu-item-2210\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2210\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/nephrology\/fellowship\/fellows-corner\/\">Fellows Corner<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li id=\"menu-item-2212\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-2212\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lsom.uthscsa.edu\/nephrology\/fellowship\/conferences-grand-round-events\/\">Conferences &amp; Grand Round Events<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/nav><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]A variety of inpatient and outpatient clinical rotations and a multitude of research and scholarly activities are designed to meet career needs. 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