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…
Check out these 10 videos by Abhilash Koratala, MD, FASN from the University of Florida on point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS): Introduction to Ultrasound Point-of-Care Renal Ultrasonography POCUS of the Lung, Inferior Vena Cava, & Heart Case Studies in Renal…
A free water and sodium calculator app is available for download for iOS, Android. The app was created by Daniel Batlle from Northwestern University. The app focuses on commonly used formulas for water and sodium. While there are…
Neph Sim (click to access the tool) is a mobile-friendly nephrology teaching tool designed for medical students, residents, and fellows.Users choose an interactive case and work their way from history and physical exam to diagnostics tests and ultimately the final diagnosis and…
Nephro360 (click for a video) is a tool designed to teach the pre-clinical nephrology curriculum and improve student engagement and learning using gaming and virtual reality (VR) tools. “Nephro360”, one of the winners of the 2018 ASN Innovation in…
Nephrologists treat hypertension! And not just in our advanced CKD/ESRD patients. For folks (including fellows in training) who are perhaps more interested in hypertension than the average nephrologist, certification from the American Society of Hypertension (ASH) can offer…