HMIDC 2013: Videos on Social Media
Interesting and informative social media videos that can be used for presentations. Social Media Revolution 2013 Information Overload Syndrome Rethinking Medical Education [...]
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HMIDC 2013: The New Learner
Digital Native vs. Digital Immigrant Speaker: Dr. Curtis Whitehair, Georgetown University Marc Prensky coined the above two terms for the learners of today and yesterday. A [...]
HMIDC 2013: Introduction
Dr. Kenar Jhaveri, eAJKD Blog Editor, will be live tweeting and blogging from the Harvard Macy Institute’s course on Become a Digital Citizen – Technology in Health [...]
Nephrology: Educating Patients, Internists and Trainees
Educating patients about kidney diseases is an area that is of utmost importance and several recent studies have focused on this topic. Furthermore, educating primary care [...]
Test Your Knowledge: ANCA Vasculitis
The antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitides (AAVs) comprise granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA), commonly seen with antibodies to proteinase 3 [...]
Guidelines for Kidney Diseases
In 2012, Kidney International Supplements published the KDIGO guidelines on the treatment of glomerular diseases (GN). The guidelines were commissioned as part of a KDIGO [...]
NSAIDS and Membranous Nephropathy: A True Link or Coincidence?
Twenty-five percent of cases of membranous nephropathy (MN) may be a manifestation of another systemic disorder, such as autoimmune conditions, infection, malignancy, toxin [...]
Test Your Knowledge: Fibrillary Glomerulonephritis
Fibrillary glomerulonephritis (FGN) is a rare disorder with poor kidney outcomes. Therapeutic strategies, particularly the use of immunosuppressive drugs, are challenging in [...]
Are Nephrology Fellows Doing Enough Procedures? Give It Up or Get It Back?
Nephrology fellows have traditionally been trained in the placement of femoral and internal jugular catheters for dialysis. With improvements in the quality of care provided [...]
MGRS: Monoclonal Gammopathy of Renal Significance: The Era Has Begun
In an article recently published in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases, Zand et al discuss a series of patients with C3 glomerulopathy and monoclonal gammopathy. This [...]