Nephrologists as Educators: Clarifying Roles, Seizing Opportunities.
Nephrologists play an important role in providing medical education in a variety of settings, including the medical school classroom, nephrology consult service, outpatient clinic, and dialysis unit. Therefore, nephrologists interact with a variety of learners. In this article the current state of published literature in medical education in nephrology is reviewed. Eight attending roles are identified of the nephrologist as a medical educator in the academic settings: inpatient internal medicine service, nephrology inpatient consult service, inpatient ESRD service, outpatient nephrology clinic, kidney transplantation, dialysis unit, classroom teacher, and research mentor. Defining each of these distinct settings could help to promote positive faculty development and encourage more rigorous education scholarship in nephrology.
Division of Nephrology, North Shore University Hospital and Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Hofstra North Shore LIJ School of Medicine, Great Neck, New York; and kjhaveri@nshs.edu.
Kenar D
KD
Jhaveri
Section of Nephrology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
Mark A
MA
Perazella
D035843:Biomedical Research; D004501:Education, Medical; D006801:Humans; D009398:Nephrology / Q000193:education*; D010819:Physician's Role; D013663:Teaching
ESRD; nephropathy; transplantation