Conferences
Plan for Academic Year 2018-2019
- Orientation months: July-August. Lectures must be handed to the fellowship coordinator to be uploaded to Blackboard/Canvas.
- Starting September 2018 through June 2019:
- Each month will start (or end) with a transplant topic.
- Each month will have a theme/topic
- These topics will follow the most recent NephSAP issues
- The topic will be covered with fellows and attendings
- The topics will be assigned to the fellows at the beginning of the year. No more last-minute topic selection.
- Proposed plan for month of September:
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- Transplant lectures(fellows will rotate for these months) - (shown in yellow)
- Basic Science lectures including classic literature by the attendings (shown in green)
- Fellows lectures ( shown in blue)
- Wrapping up and monthly test (shown in red)
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- Transplant lectures for the academia year 2018-2019:
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- Basic Science of transplantation - September 2018
- Immunosuppression why we do what we do? - October 2018
- Mechanism of Rejection and Antibody mediated rejection - November 2018
- Noninfectious SHORT term Post-Transplant complications I - December 2018
- Infectious Post-Transplant complications I - January 2019
- Infectious Post-Transplant complications II - February 2019
- Noninfectious LONG term Post-Transplant complications II - March 2019
- Improving organ utilization, the art of donor-recipient matching - April 2019
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- Topics:
- Electrolytes/Acid-base disorders - September 2018
- Hemodialysis/Access - October 2018
- Peritoneal Dialysis - November 2018
- CKD - December 2018
- Hypertension - January 2019
- Glomerular Diseases - February 2019
- Renal Bone diseases/Kidney Stones - March 2019
- Anemia of CKD - April 2019
- Acute Kidney Injury/Critical Care Nephro - May 2019
- Pregnancy/Cystic Kidney diseases - June 2019
- Topics:
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- Example month (month of Peritoneal Dialysis):
- 1st week: Transplant topic
- 2nd week:
- Mechanism of Peritoneal Dialysis (basic science lecture)
- Journal club: Classic literature
- 3rd week:
- Grand round: Infectious complications of PD
- Grand round: non-infectious complications of PD
- 4th week:
- Case presentation, M&M or Evidence-based debate
- Journal club: updated article
- Exam is the last Friday of each month at 2pm-3pm (fellows are excused from clinical duties), NO EXCEPTIONS.
- Example month (month of Peritoneal Dialysis):
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- Biopsy Conferences will be monthly. One case with concise review of literature.
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- Professor rounds will be the first Thursday of the month and will go over the exam questions from the previous month.