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Online Calculators

• Kidney Failure Risk Equation. A validated calculator to estimate 2 and 5 year risk of ESRD and potential benefits of ACEi/ARB or SLGT2i treatment.

Nephrology Competitions

• Nephmadness. A yearly March Madness themed competition where contestants (individuals or groups) decide which novel and/or critical nephrology concepts move on in the bracket.

• Nephro World Cup. A q4 year competition where contestants decide which paper (1st author from each individual World Cup country) deserves to move on.

Online/Interactive Resources (Cases, simulators, websites, videos, etc.)

• NephSIM. An excellent set of cases that walks you through the physiology, diagnosis, and management of various nephrology topics. Asterisks indicate level of difficulty and you can review by general topic (AKI, elec, ESRD, etc.).

• GlomCon. Glomerular disease journal clubs, online meetings, and educational resources.  

• Nephropocus. A resource on use of POCUS in nephrology.

• Nephrology PenCast Videos. A review of various renal physiology from Duke.

• UTAH UA Review. Quick review of basic urinalysis procedure/findings.

• AJKD Core Curriculum. Good basic reviews of core topics. A good place to start when inquiring about a new topic or reviewing an old one.

• AJKD Renal Pathology Atlas. Excellent review of classic pathology associated with common, and uncommon, renal diseases. A great resource.

• Hemodialysis resources. Aimed at fellows but interesting resources focusing on how dialysis works.

  • Hemodialysis Kinetics 101. A question/case based review from Yale nephrology.

  • Hemodialysis Access 101. A question/case based review from Yale nephrology.

  • Home Hemodialysis Simulator. Interactive review of how HHD works.

Nephrology Blogs

• Renal Fellow Network blog. An interesting searchable educational reference. Blogs written by fellows! Subscribe to it via email and you’ll get notified.

• History of Nephrology Blog. An interesting blog to peruse to get some historical perspective.

• Precious Bodily Fluids Blog. An interesting blog about random neph topics. Often has interesting ways of explaining core topics.

Patient education websites to explore and consider for your patients

• OHSU Nephrology Patient Education “Portal”.

• NKF Kidney Basics.

• MEI VA eKidney Clinic.

• MEI Kidney School (a more in depth resource).

• NKF Dialysis Basics.

• NKF Nutrition.

• MATCH-D Assessing Dialysis Choices.

• MEI My Kidney Life Plan Assessing Dialysis Choices.

• Renal Support Network.

• American Association of Kidney Patients.

• Curbsiders. Several excellent episodes on CKD, SGLT2i, resistant HTN/primary hyperaldo, CRS, HRS, dialysis for internist, etc.

• Nephrology Journal Club. A Twitter online journal club that meets every 2 weeks (generally Tue evenings) to discuss articles. An interesting way to hear lots of opinions from around the country/world.

• Freely Filtered - The NephJC Podcast. A podcast reviewing the articles discussed in NephJC, a great way to review key articles without following the formal journal club.

• Channel Your Enthusiasm (Burton Rose) Podcast. A podcast reviewing chapters from Burton Rose’s seminal textbook on nephrology acid-base and electrolyte physiology.

• Kidney Chronicles Pediatric Nephrology Podcast.

National/International Societies

• American Society of Nephrology. Our main national organization.

• National Kidney Foundation.

• International Society of Nephrology.

• International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis.

National/International Guidelines

• KDIGO. Our main iternational guidelines on CKD, GN, HTN, dialysis etc.

• KDIGO Controversies Conferences. Interesting conference series on contentious topics in nephrology with updated commentaries and presentations from faculty leaders.

• Target BP. An AHA hypertension resource.

• 2017 ACC/AHA HTN Guidelines.

• NICE UK HTN Guidelines.  

Conferences

• ASN Kidney Week. The main national meeting for nephrology. Generally held in early November.

• NKF Spring Clinical Meetings. Generally held in early April.

• KidneyCon. A smaller, interactive conference in Arkansas held in April.