Table 1 Ongoing efforts and suggestions for future areas of focus
Area of Concern | Ongoing Efforts | Potential Future Areas of Focus |
|---|---|---|
Interest in subject matter | Kidney STARS and Kidney TREKS | Team-based learning and interactive renal physiology modules |
KidneyCona | Educational videos and mobile applications for renal physiology | |
ASN Innovations in Education contest | Podcasts about nephrology careers | |
NephJC, NephMadnessb | ||
Nephrology elective experience | Outpatient dialysis elective | Elective in transplantation |
Exposure to critical care, interventional nephrology, and palliative care | ||
Mentorship | ASN Mentor-Mentee online curriculum | Formal mentorship curriculum for faculty |
Career Advancement ASN Communities forum | ||
Kidney STARS and Kidney TREKS | ||
Combined training opportunities | Programs which offer sequential critical care and nephrology trainingc | Additional combined training with critical care, interventional radiology, or geriatrics/palliative care |
Job opportunities and financial compensation | Improved J1 waiver job placements | Procedural skills training |
Hospital-based or dialysis organization-based employments | Advanced career pathways and collaboration across disciplines | |
Work-life balance and burnout | Restructured fellow call schedules | Reduction of the electronic health record burden |
Organizational platforms for open discussion and advocacy | Development of improved comprehensive care models | |
Continued organizational initiatives to foster culture change |