We had two good chats in the shadow of the impending Holiday vacation. Here are the summaries:
Walk Away to Lower Hospitalization?
#AskRenal, a new social media initiative to help medical students
Renal physiology and pathophysiology is widely regarded as one of the most challenging subjects in the pre-clinical studies of medical school. The challenging subject has been blamed for the downturn in interest in our fine specialty. To help combat this we have started an initiative where a medical students can post a question to Twitter and get an answers from practicing nephrologists and basic scientists. See the kick off post at PBFluids.
The way this works is, if a student has a question they post it to Twitter with the hashtag #AskRenal. We have a bot that scours Twitter for this hashtag and will retweet the question while tagging @NephJC. NephJC will amplify the question to its audience of nephrology nerds who will then provide answers tagging the initial questioner.
Everything is in place, we are just waiting to get some student questions.
Inorder to better promote this we would like to capture when different medical students teach renal physiology and renal pathophysiology. If you know the schedule of one or two medical schools, please enter the class timing on to this crowd sourced spreadsheet.
One more patient voice on CKD Staging and Precision Medicine
#NephJC wrap up: The CKD staging & Precision Medicine chat
The CKD Classification System in the Precision Medicine Era: My Thought and Recommendations
Next NephJC: The CKD Classification System in the Precision Medicine Era
The #NephJC December Schedule
HARMONY: #NephJC wrapup
The HARMONY trial: The Patient Perspective
HARMONY: Is it safe to withdraw steroids early after Kidney Transplant?
Just trying to hook up facebook to NephJC.com
For a team that is supposed to know a lot about social media, we all find Facebook pretty baffling.
Best tweets of #KidneyWk
The NephJC KidneyWk Tweet-Up
The NephJC KidneyWk Poster Walk Through
#KidneyWkBingo is back!
It's back. The original, slightly subversive, slightly funny, ASN Kidney Week Bingo board. Turn hobnobbing with the kidney elite into a competitive sport. Tweet out each of your squares with the hashtag #KidneyWkBingo. Let's make Nephrology Great Again!
NephJC has two Posters at Kidney Week
The finalists for the inaugural NephJC Kidneys
Thanks for the outpouring of participation following our call for nominations for the NephJC Kidney Awards. It has been heart warming to see our community step up and participate when asked. It is what makes working in nephrology social media so rewarding.
Nominations close on Wednesday
Does Contrast cause acute Kidney Injury?
Iodinated contrast is well known to cause acute kidney injury (AKI), mainly from its physico-chemical properties, and is the commonly cited as being the third most common cause of AKI in hospitalized patients. But is this really true? Even the term contrast-induced AKI (CI-AKI) is now being increasingly replaced by contrast-associated AKI (CA-AKI), and could contrast be an 'innocent bystander'?