What Are We Doing? A Survey of United States Nephrology Fellowship Program Directors.

ABSTRACT: Interest in nephrology has been declining in recent years. Long work hours and a poor work/life balance may be partially responsible, and may also affect a fellowship's educational mission. We surveyed nephrology program directors using a web-based survey in order to define current clinical and educational practice patterns and identify areas for improvement. Our survey explored fellowship program demographics, fellows' workload, call structure, and education. Program directors were asked to estimate the average and maximum number of patients on each of their inpatient services, the number of patients seen by fellows in clinic, and to provide details regarding their overnight and weekend call. In addition, we asked about number of and composition of didactic conferences. Sixty-eight out of

SUBMITTER: Liebman SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5338709 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature