Journal ArticleAcad Med · April 1, 2025
PURPOSE: Despite universal agreement on the importance of clinical reasoning skills, inadequate curricular attention to these skills remains a problem. To facilitate integration of clinical reasoning instruction and assessment into the preclerkship phase, ...
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Journal ArticleAcad Med · October 1, 2023
PROBLEM: With the dissolution of the Step 2 Clinical Skills exam, medical programs have a greater responsibility to teach and assess clinical skills in the preclerkship years. Clinical teaching this early has traditionally been avoided because of insuffici ...
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Journal ArticleAdv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract · August 2023
Career selection in medicine is a complex and underexplored process. Most medical career studies performed in the U.S. focused on the effect of demographic variables and medical education debt on career choice. Considering ongoing U.S. physician workforce ...
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Journal ArticleTransplant Direct · April 2023
UNLABELLED: Kidney transplant (KT) recipients who are not actively engaged in their care and lack self-management skills have poor transplant outcomes, which are disproportionately observed among Black KT recipients. This pilot study aimed to determine whe ...
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Journal ArticleClin Transplant · May 2021
We retrospectively examined the clinical characteristics, pathological features, and outcomes of BK viremia and nephropathy in a population of non-renal solid organ transplant patients (NRSOT) referred for outpatient nephrology consultation over a period o ...
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Journal ArticleKidney360 · October 29, 2020
BACKGROUND: In graduate medical education (GME), there are many barriers to achieving a personalized learning process with standardized learning outcomes. One way to support this is through mobile-friendly digital blackboard videos. We sought to measure th ...
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Journal ArticleAdv Chronic Kidney Dis · July 2020
In the medical profession, teaching has always been a routine expectation for practicing physicians. While this remains true today, in recent years, we have seen the emergence of a well-defined career pathway for those practicing physicians who want to foc ...
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Journal ArticleMedEdPORTAL · September 27, 2019
INTRODUCTION: Metabolic acidosis is a dangerous and potentially life-threatening condition encountered in the inpatient and emergency department setting. Metabolic acidoses due to renal failure, bicarbonate losses, or lactic acidosis are common conditions, ...
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Journal ArticleAdv Physiol Educ · March 1, 2018
The authors began a curriculum reform project to improve the experience in a Renal Physiology course for first-year medical students. Taking into account both the variety of learning preferences among students and the benefits of student autonomy, the auth ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Kidney Dis · February 2018
Baclofen, a commonly prescribed muscle relaxant, is primarily excreted via the kidneys; toxicity is a potentially serious adverse outcome in patients with decreased kidney function. We describe a patient with end-stage kidney disease receiving hemodialysis ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Cardiol · May 1, 2017
Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are at increased risk of cardiovascular disease and death, yet little data exist regarding the comparative efficacy of coronary revascularization procedures in CKD patients with multivessel disease. We created a c ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Transplant · January 2017
Interstitial nephritis due to viruses is well-described after solid organ transplantation. Viruses implicated include cytomegalovirus; BK polyomavirus; Epstein-Barr virus; and, less commonly, adenovirus. We describe a rare case of hemorrhagic allograft nep ...
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Journal ArticleRen Fail · November 2016
Interest in nephrology among trainees is waning in the USA. Early perceptions and attitudes to subject matter can be linked to the quality of pre-clinical curricula. We wanted to explore these attitudes in the setting of modern curriculum redesign. We util ...
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Journal ArticleAdv Physiol Educ · September 2015
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Medical education reform is underway, but the optimal course for change has yet to be seen. While planning for the redesign of a renal physiology course at the Duke School of Medicine, the authors used a Q-sort survey to assess students' attitudes and lear ...
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Journal ArticleSemin Dial · 2015
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Baclofen is an oral derivative of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) used to treat muscular spasticity from disorders of the central nervous system. However, it is also being used for a variety of other conditions such as musculoskeletal pain, myoclonus, and a ...
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Journal ArticleAdv Chronic Kidney Dis · November 2014
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Coronary heart disease is highly prevalent in patients with CKD, and survival after acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is worse compared with the general population. Many trials that define guidelines for cardiovascular disease excluded patients with kidney dis ...
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Journal ArticleSemin Dial · 2011
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Despite a substantial number of patients with end-stage renal disease who have coronary artery disease, the comparative effectiveness of revascularization procedures such as coronary artery bypass grafting and percutaneous coronary intervention remain uncl ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Physiol Renal Physiol · October 2007
Accurate determination of renal function in mice is a major impediment to the use of murine models in acute kidney injury. The purpose of this study was to determine whether early changes in renal function could be detected using dynamic gamma camera imagi ...
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