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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 is geared towards a clinical dilemma and a research of the 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 three of these conferences per year.

 Research Conference
This conference meets every other Wednesday at noon.  Clinical and basic science faculty as well as fellows present ongoing research at this conference to familiarize the Division with their work.  Fellows are expected to give a Research Conference at the end of their fellowship to outline their research experience.
 

 Biopsy Conference
This conference alternates with Research Conference and is led by our Renal Pathologist, Dr. Sally Self.  The previous two weeks 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.  Background information is presented first, and then the article is discussed and evaluated by the entire faculty.  Each fellow will present one to two journal club articles per year.

 Fellows Reading Club
This conference meets Thursday afternoons at 4:00 pm and is entirely Fellow run.  The schedule rotates between fellows and any topic is available for discussion.  The goal of this conference is to review certain disease states that may not be encountered regularly in Nephrology Training and to prepare for the ABIM Board Exam in Nephrology.

 Salt & Water
This conference meets every Friday at noon and is primarily for the Fellows although an experienced faculty member leads it.  This conference utilizes a textbook on Fluid and Electrolytes in order to augment this portion of training.