Nephrology Core Curriculum

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Conferences held each Wednesday from 12:00-1pm via Zoom and fellows will be able to watch together in Duke North Room 7733.

Sparks

Faculty Lead- Matthew A. Sparks, MD

Orientation Schedule

Orientation 2023

2nd/3rd Year Boot Camp - July 21st, 2023

MSRB2 2nd floor, Room 2018 - Zoom Option Available

 

Date

Title

Speaker

9:30am

Preparing for Success in Academia

Christina Wyatt

10:15am

Landing the Perfect Job: Interviews, CV, Cover Letters, Strategy, Contracts

Matt Sparks

11:30pm

Private Practice Nephrology/Billing

Racquel Holmes
NC Nephrology

12:00pm

Private Practice Nephrology

Anthony Provenzano
Eastern Nephrology

1:00pm

What are the Possibilities During 2nd & 3rd Year? Medical Directorship/Dialysis Rotation

Harpreet Singh

Acid Base Disturbances Block

Date

Title

Speaker

videos to watch

John Roberts

7/26/2023
Wed

Acidosis

John Roberts

8/9/23
Wed

Alkalosis
video on Alkalosis

Mike Berkoben

8/16/23
Wed

Acid Base Problem Based Learning

John Roberts

Sodium/Water Block

Date

Title

Speaker

videos to watch

John Roberts

8/23/23

Wed

Clinical Hyponatremia

 

Daniel Edmonston

 

8/30/23
Wed

Sodium/Water Homeostasis

Mike Berkoben

9/6/23
Wed

Sodium/Water Problem Based Learning

Sparks

CKD/ESKD Block

Date

Title

Speaker

videos to watch

Mike Berkoben

9/13/23
Wed

Management of CKD (including anemia)

Eugene Kovalik

9/20/23
Wed

SGLT2 Inhibitors: Primer to Becoming an Expert Flozinator

Matt Sparks

9/27/23

Wed

Hemodialysis I 

John Middleton

10/4/23

Wed

Hemodialysis II

John Middleton

Needs to be 2-3pm

10/11/23
Wed

CKD and ESRD Bone Mineral Metabolism

Ruediger Lehrich

10/13/23
Friday

Cardiovascular Disease and CKD

Daniel Edmonston

Nephropathology

Date

Title

Speaker

10/27/2023 (noon)

Nephropathology Session

Matthew Sparks

11/6/2023 (noon)

Nephropathology Cases 

Fellows

11/8/2023 (4pm)

Nephropathology Cases

Fellows

11/8/2023 (8pm)

Nephropathology Cases

Fellows

11/10/2023 (4pm) Nephropathology Cases Fellows

Glomerular Disorders Block

Date

Title

Speaker

11/15/23

Wed

FSGS/Minimal Change

Olabisi

11/17/23
Friday

Membranous Nephropathy

Sparks

11/22/23
Wed

OFF Thanksgiving

 

11/29/23

TMA/C3G/drug related TMAs/MPGN

Shweta Punj

12/1/23
(Friday 1pm)

Combined Rheum/Neph SLE Conf 1(Medicine Chairs CR DAV.461)

Singh/Rogers

12/6/23

ANCA-Associated Vasculitis/anti-GBM

Singh

12/8/23

(Friday 1pm)

Combined Rheum/Neph SLE Conf 2(Medicine Chairs CR DAV.461)

Singh/Rogers

12/13/23
Wed

IgA Nephropathy

Singh

12/15/23
Fri

Glomerular Disorders Holiday Jeopardy

Ortiz-Melo

Peritoneal Dialysis and Home Hemodialysis Block

Date

Title

Speaker

10/18/23

Wed

PD1

Rebecca Frazier

 

10/20/23
Friday

PD2

Rebecca Frazier

10/25/23
Wed

Hepatorenal Syndrome

Susan Murray

11/8/23

Wed

PD3

Rebecca Frazier

11/10/23
Fri

HHD

Rebecca Frazier

Kidney Transplant Block

Date

Title

Speaker

1/3/24

Wed

Transplant Immunology and Rejection

Scott Sanoff

1/5/24

Friday

Introduction to Immune Suppression 

 Jennifer Byrns

1/10/24
Wed

Infectious Disease and Kidney Transplantation

Goni Katz-Greenberg, Micah Schub

1/12/24 Fri

Long Term Medical Management of the Kidney Transplant Recipient  

John Roberts

1/17/24
Wed

The Transplant Process

Gayle Vranic

1/19/24
Friday

Real Life Decisions: Evidence Based Management of IS 

 Sanoff/Byrns

POCUS Curriculum

Date

Title

Speaker

2/5/24

Ultrasound Basics

TBD

2/7/24

Kidney/Bladder Ultrasound

TBD

2/9/24

Practical- Durham VA 8th Floor (B8017) (noon-1:30)

TBD

2/12/24

Cardiac Exam

TBD

2/14/24

Volume Assessment, Lung and IVC

TBD

2/16/24

Practical Durham- VA 8th Floor (B8017) (noon-1:30)

TBD

Miscellaneous Block I

Date

Title

Speaker

3/1/23

Hypertension I 

Crystal Tyson

3/3/23

Hypertension II

Crystal Tyson

3/8/23 (Wed)

NephMadness 2023

Matthew Sparks

3/15/23 (Wed)

Cancelled In Training Exam

 

3/17/23 (Friday)

Cancelled In Training Exam

 

3/22/23 Aging and Kidney Health Rasheeda Hall

3/24/23 (Friday)

The Transplant Process

Scott Sanoff

3/29/23 (Wed)

Myeloma and the Kidney

Nilou Yarandi, Yale

3/31 (Fri)

Water and Reactions During Hemodialysis

Eugene Kovalik

4/7/23 (Fri)

PD Prescription Problem Based Learning

John Duronville

4/12/23 (Wed)

Cancelled NKF SCM

 

4/13/23 (Fri)

Cancelled NKF SMC

 

4/28/23 (Fri) NephroTalk Communication and Palliative Care I Jonathan Fischer
5/3/23 (Wed) NephroTalk Communication and Palliative Care II Jonathan Fischer

Calcium Phosphorus Stones Block

4/19/23 (Wed)

Disorders of Calcium and Phosphate

Rebecca Frazier

4/21/23 (Friday

Cancelled

KIDNEYcon

4/26/23 (Wed)

Nephrolithiasis

Deepa Malieckal, Northwell

Tubulointerstitial and Polycystic Kidney Disease Block

Date

Title

Speaker

5/5/23 (Fri)

Tubulointerstitial Kidney Disease

David Ortiz-Melo

5/12/22 (Fri)

ADPKD

David Ortiz-Melo

5/19/23 (Fr)

Tubulointerstitial/ADPKD Jeopardy

David Ortiz-Melo

Miscellaneous Block II

Date

Title

Speaker

5/24/23 (Wed)

Vascular Access

Ellen Dillavou

6/2/23 IgA Nephropathy Harpreet Singh

6/7/23 (Wed)

GLP1 receptor agonists in diabetes and obesity

Jennifer Green

Critical Care Block

Date

Title

Speaker

6/14/23 (Wed)

CRRT

Matthew Sparks

6/17/22

Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics

Paul Pleczkowski
Jennifer Gommer

6/21/22

Critical Care Nephrology Problem Based Learning

John Musgrove