Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Glomcon Teaching Tool

Glomerular Disease Case Conferences from GlomCon on Vimeo.

I would like to introduce you to a new educational project for Nephrology fellowship programs, the Glomcon Teaching Tool. It has been selected as a finalist in this year's ongoing ASN Innovation contest.

This teaching tool has four components:
 1) A Pre-conference 'Glomcon Trivia' webinar : Tuesday 12pm.
-Hour long sessions, led on a rotating basis twice a month by participating Nephrology Programs
-Live audience response polling

2) Live web-based Glomcon Case Conferences, Wednesday 6pm
-Conferences include pathology slides review by a nephropathologist. Discussion is led by a volunteering nephrologist.

3) Web-based archive of de-identified case summaries from past conferences with pathology images

4) Discussion forum questions from the pre-conference webinar will be posted in an online quiz format for users who may have missed it earlier.

We will organize the first Glomcon Trivia session on August 1 with the case conference on August 2.
At this time, 13 programs across the country are participating in it. If you or your program would like to be a part of this endeavor, please email me at nagrawa2@bidmc.harvard.edu. If you would like to sign up for the Glomcon case conferences, please email conferences@glomcon.org.

Thank you very much for your time. I look forward to hearing from you.

Nikhil Agrawal
Nephrology Fellow PGY-5
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School

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