The Poll Results from last week were relatively convincing: Up To Date is the most commonly used current reference system for rapidly obtaining nephrology knowledge, with 67% of respondents declaring Up To Date as their top source. I…
Happy New Year’s Eve! I found the results of last week’s poll to be surprising…well, I guess I shouldn’t be too shocked to see that Nephrology Fellows won the “hardest working fellow in show business” award, being that…
One of the things I was definitely grateful for at this year’s Thanksgiving table: I’m not on-call and can spend the holiday with my family! Best wishes to those renal fellows working hard on this holiday. Poll Results…
First things first: last week’s poll results showed that the majority of individuals were wary of using physician “Pay For Performance” as a strategy towards increasing AV fistula placement rates. Proponents of this strategy (see editorial by Hakim…
The results from last week’s Poll of the Week are in, and in general, a majority of individuals (64%) felt that their training programs did a good job of teaching them the art of the renal biopsy, while…
The readers of the Renal Fellow Network have spoken, and the answer is clear: the most blood pressure elevating activity is catheter-related! 29% of fellows selected the first answer (the MICU nurse paging you to inform that your…
Changes are afoot at Renal Fellow Network! First off, we’re going to feature a NEW CONTRIBUTOR to this blog! Despite the blog’s moniker of “Renal Fellow Network”, it has not been as much of a “network” as I’d…
Cool new resource for all those iPod/iPhone (or whatever your MP3 player or PDA of choice happens to be): the ASN Kidney News podcast series. I have been listening to these during days in the lab where I…
While the ACGME regulates the vast majority of post-graduate residencies/fellowships, there are a few exceptions. One of the notable ones is the rapidly evolving Kidney Transplant fellowship. Previously, nephrologists were certified as members of the kidney transplant community…
In 1999, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)–the organization which oversees all residency and fellowship programs in the U.S. and is responsible for their official status as a licensed training program–issued a list of 6 Core…
