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…
Having completed four years of medical school, three years of residency, and now a few months away from my completing my training as a nephrology fellow, I experienced a new type of learning – interprofessional education (IPE). IPE…
Kidney fibrosis is the common final pathway where all forms of kidney diseases converge– whether it is diabetic nephropathy, rapid progressive glomerulonephritis, or chronic allograft nephropathy in transplantation. Once significant irreversible fibrosis or scarring has developed, nephrologists are…
A middle-aged man with a history of microcytic anemia, well-controlled diabetes mellitus (DM)/hypertension (for 15 years), and a 16 month history of diarrhea with a 30-pound weight loss, and a creatinine of 1.9 mg/dL. Laboratory tests showed a…
A patient presents to the emergency department with complaints of pain. This is a common scenario seen over and over again in emergency rooms around the world on a daily basis. The recent crackdown on opioid prescriptions over…
In renal transplant recipients with allograft dysfunction, differentiating between a viral infection or acute cellular rejection as the etiology of interstitial nephritis can be difficult – especially as they can commonly occur concurrently. We recently saw a 40-year-old woman who received a…
