Welcome to the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Nephrology Fellowship
Thank you for your interest in the Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC) Nephrology fellowship program, based in beautiful San Francisco. Our fellowship program is a 24-month ACGME accredited training program that adheres to ABIM guidelines for training in nephrology. We accept two fellows per year through the NRMP match.
Our mission is to educate and mentor the next generation of compassionate and skilled clinicians, educators, and researchers in the field of Nephrology.
Fellows have the opportunity to train in one of the nation’s largest integrated health systems and provide care for patients from diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds.
- Fellows train primarily at Kaiser Permanente San Francisco, which has a long history of clinical excellence and commitment to resident and fellow education. Here, fellows develop their core knowledge in inpatient and outpatient nephrology, dialysis therapies, glomerular disease, and palliative care.
- Fellows also train at Kaiser Permanente Oakland, a large urban medical center with a diverse patient population, where they will rotate in inpatient nephrology and palliative care.
- Fellows train in home dialysis therapies at Kaiser Permanente in Santa Clara, home to the largest peritoneal dialysis unit in Northern California, with experienced faculty and nursing staff, and over 230 patients.
- Fellows have a well-rounded kidney transplant experience. They rotate at UCSF in the inpatient post-transplant service and also attend specialty donor evaluation and post-transplant clinics. This experience is complemented by rotations at our regional Kaiser Permanente Kidney Transplant Clinics based in SF.
- Fellows have a hybrid (virtual + in-person) kidney pathology rotation at Stanford, where they spend dedicated time with kidney pathology faculty and fellows.
- In addition to these diverse clinical experiences, fellows have the opportunity to engage in clinical research during both years of fellowship, in partnership with the KP Division of Research.
We invite you to explore this site and learn more about our program!