Nephrology

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(1) Course Goals: •Primary: To provide clinical experience in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with kidney diseases, fluid and electrolyte disorders, and hypertension. •Secondary: To integrate physiology, immunology, pathology, and biochemistry into the evaluation and management of patients with renal disease. (2) Course expectations, attendance & how course goals are achieved: •Students should meet on the first day of the rotation at Duke Hospital, Dialysis Unit, 7th floor, near Unit 7800. Unit phone: 919-681-7800. Please meet promptly at 8:00 a.m and look for the Floor Service fellow or chief fellow. Alternately, please page the Acute Fellow at pager # 970-7746. •Students must attend AT LEAST 90% of the mandatory clinical sessions to pass the course. In other words, a student who misses more than 10% of required sessions will receive an Incomplete grade and must work with the course director to make up the time before a grade is submitted. This includes any excused absence (travel for professional meeting or illness) or even an unexcused absence. This does not include approved holidays as outlined on the School Doctor of Medicine Academic Calendar. Holidays do not count as an absence. •Any absence without prior notification of the course director is considered unexcused unless documentation of inability to make those contacts is provided. Any absence not approved by the course director for a required part of a course is considered unexcused. An unexcused absence will have a negative impact on the student's grade or evaluation and may result in a Code of Professional Conduct charge if deemed unprofessional behavior. A pattern of unexcused absences will result in an unsatisfactory grade. For example: In the typical 4-week elective course where the required sessions are five full days per week (Monday-Friday), a student can have two full day absences and still…