Tricky Testing in the Patient on Hemodialysis
2023 Advances in Peritoneal Dialysis Annual Symposium (Hybrid): Friday 9/29, Free for Trainees
Cylindroids in Urine, Have You Ever Seen It?
Midwest Transplant Symposium: October 13-15 (Travel Grants Available!)
Free Thrombotic Microangiopathy Workshop During Kidney Week
Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel in Patients with Exhausted Vascular Access: Unconventional Sites for Hemodialysis Arteriovenous Access Creation and Catheter Placement
Pericardial effusion detected on point of care ultrasound: What next?
Shared Decision Making in Dialysis Vascular Access
UAB CRRT Academy Information!
Tricky Testing in the Patient on Hemodialysis
James Bannister, Resident, Sunderland Royal Hospital, UKJamie Willows, Renal Fellow, Sunderland Royal Hospital, UK Introduction When patients on dialysis are admitted to the hospital with a broken bone or a pericardial effusion, for example, they need at least…
Home Dialysis for Fellows Online Resource
Home Dialysis for Fellows is a free online resource dedicated to making fellows stronger clinicians in home dialysis management. It is made of case-based questions that mimic real-life scenarios, and it has a large repository of important recent,…
Potential Adverse Effects of SGLT2 Inhibitors in Clinical Trials
The use of SGLT2 inhibitors in patients with kidney disease is becoming the standard of care. This table covers many of the common potential side effects from several of the major clinical trials. Red- difference showing more adverse…
A Picture Worth a Thousand Words- The Emergence of the Visual Abstract
A visual abstract, sometimes called a graphical abstract or an infographic, is a simplified pictorial representation of a study, concept, or idea. A visual abstract gives viewers a gist of the study. It serves as a review, an…
Pivoting to Virtual / Individualized Learning in the COVID Era
Let’s face it. Everything changed. Despite this, many educators and training programs have heroically attempted to keep structure, didactics, and interactive learning alive in the face of such significant change. Historically, many GME training programs still rely on…
There’s an app for that: calculating the dose of dialysis, the free Adequator app
The use of extracorporeal therapies, like dialysis, is a core part of nephrology training and practice. Fellowship programs spend a considerable amount of time delivering educational content aimed at kidney replacement therapies (KRT). This included hemodialysis, home-based dialysis,…
10 Nephrology Free Open Access Medical Education (FOAMed) Resources
Dear Nephrology Fellows, Since it’s July, we wanted to share 10 free open access medical education (FOAMed) resources that we think will enhance your fellowship experience as both a learner and educator. We encourage you to visit and…
2019 RFN Editors’ NephMadness Champion: Terlipressin
NephMadness has begun! Submit your 2019 NephMadness picks here.We’ll review some NephMadness basics below and leak our picks for this year. 1.What is NephMadness? NephMadness is an educational game played out across social media, modeled after the US…
RAAS is Your Friend: Pocket Guide to Heritable Blood Pressure Disorders
Throughout medical school and into residency, I have always found the interaction between renin and aldosterone very interesting, especially when learning about pathologies with hypertension that can alter their interactions. Despite this, I could never remember the pathophysiology…
Balancing the Sex and Gender Scale in Research: The American Physiology Society Sex and Gender Conference
Treatments and guidelines are created in the hopes of improving public health. However, the research foundations designing these guidelines have created an enormous sex imbalance in the field. During the second week of October, The American Physiology Society…