Nephrology

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Activities: The educational programs of the Division of Nephrology offer the student abundant opportunities to enrich their exposure to clinical nephrology and transplantation. Weekly didactic conferences are designed to cover a broad spectrum of clinical, basic physiologic, and pathophysiologic information relevant to the practice of nephrology and transplantation. Didactic conferences include renal physiology, pathophysiology and clinical nephrology seminars. In addition, the weekly journal club provides an opportunity to review state of the art information from leading medical journals. Medical student teaching conferences are a key component of the training program and are specifically designed to provide an in-depth review of clinical nephrology at the student level. Course materials include a comprehensive syllabus, access to an updated computer database in clinical nephrology, and numerous reference textbooks within the library of the Division of Nephrology. The purpose of this elective is to provide the student with a basic understanding of the following.