title: The need for teaching artificial organ technology in medicine: learning from the kidney.
abstract: In organ replacement therapy, there are lessons to be learned from the biological, clinical, social, and educational implications of renal replacement therapy, the kidney being first among other organs in the quality and quantity of therapy. In the light of the teaching potential of these lessons, no pre- or postgraduate educational reforms can afford to ignore the fruit of 20 years of renal replacement therapy.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Nephrology, St. Orsola University Hospital, Bologna, Italy.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Bonomini
mesh_terms: D001187:Artificial Organs; D006801:Humans; D007688:Kidneys, Artificial; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science / Q000193:education*