[MUSIC PLAYING] TROY PLUMB: Welcome to the division of nephrology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. I'm Troy Plumb, and I'm the division chief of nephrology and also the program director for the Nephrology Fellowship Training Program. And we are pleased that you have come to our site to learn more about our fellowship program. So one of the unique features of our fellowship is interventional nephrology training. 

In most places, interventional nephrology training is an additional year of fellowship. However, we have been able to train multiple fellows within the two-year period. They get enough procedures to get ASDIN credentialing. For those fellows who really would like to get additional transplant experience, we've been able to work in the second year to get them significant exposure to transplant, such that they would be going to transplant surgeries, going to organ harvests. 

Finally, our home dialysis clinic is a very robust clinic. And in recent years, there's been a very large push for patients to go to home dialysis. But a lot of programs don't have the patient numbers in order to support the training. Fortunately, we have one of the larger home hemodialysis patient populations in the country. 

RYAN MULLANE: We really look for the attitude that fits with the culture we have, which is really trying to be the best that we can be and provide the best care we can for our patients, so people who are hardworking, who have attitudes where they want to take care of people and improve their lives, and people who just enjoy the aspects of nephrology that are fun. The physiology, the way our patients are, those sort of qualities are really important to us. 

SHIKHA SHAILLY: Well, currently, I'm on a transplant service, so that's been pretty interesting given that where I came from, there was no transplant experience, especially in nephrology. So my typical day is I come in, I have a list of patients, and then there's a nurse practitioner who works alongside me. After that, we round typically with the surgery team, especially if they're new transplant candidates. 

Typically after rounds, I'll sit down with one of the nephrology attendings or faculty. And then in the afternoon, it's typically just catching up on notes or whatever I have left. And there are plenty of lectures. And then we have our core nephrology curriculum that we do towards the end of the day. 

DENNIS EMURON: The department of nephrology, I believe, has the best faculty that I've met, trained with through my career. Very open-minded, very oriented to our education and nurturing of young nephrologists. And I think it is the best place that I could have ever been to train. It's like family here. 

RYAN MULLANE: The people we have, the experiences that are available through not only the division but the entire university are really just unique. And I can say, having gone through fellowship here, continuing to teach very closely with the current fellows, that it's just a wonderful experience and something I would never trade.