There are several conferences over the course of the week and attendance is expected. Fellows are expected to prepare lectures for these conferences as part of their training.

 Clinical Conference
This conference meets every Tuesday at noon and focuses on a clinical problem.  The goal of this conference is to analyze and discuss available literature to support clinical decision-making.  Occasionally, a Morbidity and Mortality Conference will be held in its place.  Fellows will be expected to give several of these conferences per year.

 Research Conference
This conference meets every other Wednesday at noon.  Clinical and basic science faculty and fellows present discussions of research projects at this conference to familiarize the Division with proposed or ongoing research.  Fellows are expected to give at least one Research Conference each year to outline their research experience.
 

 Biopsy Conference
This conference alternates with Research Conference and is led by our Renal Pathologist, Dr. Sally Self.  Recent renal biopsies are presented as case studies for the clinical faculty and fellows.

 Journal Club
This conference meets every Thursday at noon to discuss a selected journal article.  Following brief presentation of background information, the current research article is discussed and evaluated by the entire faculty.  Each fellow will present one to two journal club articles per year.

Salt & Water
This conference meets every Friday at noon and is focused on renal physiology and principles for management of acid-base and fluid and electrolyte problems.  An experienced faculty member leads this conference.  This conference utilizes a textbooks on Fluid and Electrolytes in order to augment this portion of training.