UCSF Abdominal Transplant Fellowship Program
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TRANSPLANT FELLOW CURRICULUM
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Organ procurement from deceased and living donors
  • Donation after brain death
  • Donation after cardiac death
  • Living kidney and liver donation
      •  Laparoscopic living donor nephrectomy
Evaluation of the transplant donor
  • Understanding primary considerations of donor and organ quality
Evaluation of the pre-kidney, liver, and pancreas transplant candidate

Care of the pre-transplant liver candidate
  • Inpatient management of acute liver failure and decompensated chronic liver disease
  • Pre-transplant management of HCC
Transplant operations
  • Back-table organ preparation of the kidney, liver, and pancreas
      •  Ex vivo reconstruction of complex anatomy
  • Liver, kidney, and pancreas transplantation
  • Adult and pediatric patients
Inpatient care of peri- and post- transplant recipients
  • Assessment and management of allograft dysfunction
  • Management of post-transplant medical and surgical complications
Immunosuppression
  • Understanding basic mechanisms of immunosuppression
  • Ability to appropriately prescribe (individualized) regimens for induction, maintenance, and rejection immunosuppression
Basic understanding of expected outcomes after kidney, pancreas, and liver transplantation
  • Awareness of how donor, recipient, transplant, and post-transplant factors affect outcomes
Histocompatibility and crossmatching

Outpatient follow-up of transplant recipients

Familiarity with ethical dilemmas of transplantation

Transplant Pathology