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