Conferences

Plan for Academic Year 2024-2025

Our new fellows will have extensive introduction lectures about basic and common nephrology subjects from July 1, 2024 to mid-June 2025.

Starting mid-August 2024 through June 2025

Weekly Education Lectures:

  • Topics to be disused are fellows’ grand rounds, journal club, evidence-based debate, and M&M
  • Each fellow will present 2-3 journal club articles, fellows’ grand rounds, evidence base debate and M&M per year
  • These topics will be focused on the most updated guidelines
  • Our faculty will also teach topics on basic science and journal club
  • Our faculty is committed to teaching. They will hold bi-monthly sessions on board review and hold bi-monthly pathophysiology
  • Transplant lectures every month
  • Biopsy Conferences will be held 4 times a year with Arkana pathology lab. We will review 2 cases with concise review of literature (Mar, Dec, Mar and Jun)

Transplant Lectures for The Academic Year 2024-2025:

  • Basic Science of transplantation
  • Immunosuppression why we do what we do
  • Mechanism of Rejection and Antibody mediated rejection
  • Noninfectious SHORT term post-Transplant complications
  • Infectious Post-Transplant complications  I 
  • Infectious Post-Transplant complications  II 
  • Noninfectious LONG term post-Transplant complications  II  
  • Improving organ utilization, the art of donor-recipient matching 

Topics:

  • Electrolytes/Acid-base disorders
  • Hemodialysis/Access
  • Peritoneal Dialysis
  • CKD
  • Hypertension
  • Glomerular Diseases
  • Renal Bone diseases/Kidney Stones
  • Anemia of CKD
  • Acute Kidney Injury/Critical Care Nephro
  • Pregnancy/Cystic Kidney diseases

Example Month (Month of Peritoneal Dialysis):

  • Peritoneal Dialysis
  • Mechanism of Peritoneal Dialysis (basic science lecture)
  • Journal club: Classic literature
  • Grand round: Infectious complications of PD
  • Grand round: non-infectious complications of PD
  • Case presentation: M&M or Evidence-based debate
  • Journal club: updated article
  • Fellows are expected to complete two Ksap-Nephsap modules each month and review it with mentor