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The past decade has been a challenging time for nephrology. The increasing demand for kidney care combined with recent match challenges calls for the strengthening of fellowship training. This translates into a need to evaluate nephrology training, with the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) nephrology subspecialization certification traditionally an objective way to accomplish this. The pass rate for the board exam, however, has seen continued struggles, with the 80% pass rate in 2020 being an improvement from the year prior but still the lowest among medicine subspecialties. A recent
The census of hospitalized critically ill patients has risen over the last decades (
Importantly, as the critically ill population becomes sicker, reliance on
Kidney transplantation is the optimal treatment for kidney failure (
Most nephrologists consider peritoneal dialysis (PD) to be the best therapy for planned initiation of dialysis and frequent home-based hemodialysis (HD) as the best long-term therapy not only for patients with end stage kidney disease (ESKD) but also for themselves (
Patients with advanced kidney disease are increasingly older with multiple comorbidities and cognitive and functional impairments and have a limited life expectancy (
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The past year has been an arduous one. Amid the pandemic, we swiftly evolved in delivering our primary mission: patient care and education. The need for physical distancing did not culminate into any separation of trainees from education, with the majority of trainees agreeing that the educational endeavors of their programs were unaffected as a result of the pandemic (
Medical knowledge and patient complexity are rapidly growing, particularly in nephrology, one of the most complex medical sub-specialties (
The internet and social media have revolutionized the way medical information is disseminated, presented, and consumed. There is a rapid uptake of virtual and mobile-optimized modalities, where FOAMed tools are becoming a preferred modality for medical education (
Mentorship and early educational experiences play critical roles in influencing trainees' long-term career goals, and the field of nephrology is no exception. Like any specialty, one's decision to pursue nephrology likely results from a combination of clinical experiences, nephrology education, and mentorship both during medical school and residency. A majority of nephrology fellows previously reported deciding to pursue a nephrology fellowship during residency (
