Kidney Week 2016

#KidneyWk 2016: State of the Art Lectures

November 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

One of the major highlights of KidneyWk 2016 is the State of the Art Lectures, which are presented daily in the plenary session by a renowned scientist. These are topics of interest in the broader medical sense – and these experts provide a high [read more...]

#KidneyWk 2016: High Impact Clinical Trials

November 20, 2016 // 1 Comment

During this year’s Kidney Week 2016 High Impact Clinical Trials session, we learned the results from 6 key studies. I’ll briefly take you through the results of each of them here. LEADER Trial: Renal Outcomes To start things off, Dr. [read more...]

#KidneyWk 2016: Fellows’ Knowledge Competition

November 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

This year’s Nephron Challenge (aka Nephrology Jeopardy) was moderated by Dr. James Simon from the Cleveland Clinic. 3 teams of 4 fellows competed against each other with standard “Jeopardy” style rules, with points awarded for correct [read more...]

#KidneyWk 2016: The Poster Sessions

November 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

Amongst the highlights of #KidneyWk 2016 is the session on late breaking clinical trials (previously known as high impact clinical research session). The oral session from Saturday, will be covered in another blog post. In addition, there was also a [read more...]

#KidneyWk 2016: A Focus on Renal Fellow Education

November 18, 2016 // 4 Comments

Newer innovative teaching methods have several advantages over traditional lectures and powerpoints. Examples of effective clinical education tools such as team based learning or case-based debates can be used to great effect to enhance medical [read more...]

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