Summer Schedule: July and August
Tuesday 8 am - 9:30 am Summer didactic fellow teaching conference MRB4*/BIDMC
Regular Schedule: First week of September through June
Tuesday 8 - 9:30 am BWH-MGH Renal Grand Rounds MRB4*
Thursday 12:30 – 1:30 pm Fellow core curriculum lectures MRB4
Friday 9:00- 10:00 am Journal Club/Renal Pathology Conference MRB4
*Teleconferenced between BWH and MGH.
Summer Didactic Fellow Teaching Conference
Over the summer until Labor Day, there will be a didactic teaching conference on Tuesday mornings. This is an important introduction to the basics of clinical nephrology, including the handling of all common renal emergencies, and is tailored specifically for all new clinical fellows. Attendance at this conference is required by all clinical fellows.
Renal Grand Rounds
Renal Grand Rounds is teleconferenced between BWH and MGH and occurs weekly. Each clinical year fellow is responsible for four case presentations in diverse areas of nephrology throughout the academic year, which includes a brief but comprehensive literature review on a topic relevant to the case. The remainder of the Grand Rounds sessions consist of lectures given by invited outside speakers or members of the BWH/MGH faculty.
Fellow Lunchtime Didactic Teaching Conference
This is intended to be a teaching session given by BWH clinical faculty specifically for the clinical fellows, and will cover the essential topics in general nephrology, dialysis, transplantation, and renal pathology at a more advanced level than the introductory summer teaching conferences. Thematic topics are arranged in one-month modules. Lunch is provided. Attendance at this conference is required by all clinical fellows
Journal Club
Weekly Journal Club at BWH consists of individual presentations by both faculty and fellows. The goal of Journal Club is for it to be both informative and stimulating, but also to give the audience insight into how to critically review papers. The presentation includes a brief discussion of the background, why the article was chosen for journal club, main hypothesis of paper, relevance of work proposed (a priori), methods used, alternative methods which could have been used and critique, data exposition, conclusions supported by data, conclusions claimed by authors, relevance of paper (a posteriori), future questions and directions suggested by paper.
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