Clinical and Research Aspects of Geriatrics in Nephrology, Focus on Fellows

描述（由申请人提供）：这是一次旅行支持申请，使培训中的肾病学家能够参加美国唯一专门的老年肾病学会议。肾内科的这个新方向是基于这样一种认识，即成人肾内科医生治疗的大多数患者都是老年患者，而目前成人肾内科医生缺乏老年医学的正式培训和/或关于老年肾内科研究突破的知识。人口的这种变化导致ACGME规定，老年肾脏病学的各个方面都应该成为肾脏病学学员教学计划的一部分。为了完成这一新任务并消除潜在的严重知识缺口，迅速制定了一项雄心勃勃的计划来解决这一差距。该项目包括在美国肾脏病学会年度会议上建立并开展正式的教学课程，以及在美国肾脏病学会网站上发布的老年肾脏病学课程的开发。该课程已经超额报名，肾脏学项目主任已经认可了老年肾脏学课程，这证明了成人肾脏学社区对老年医学培训的广泛支持，以及美国肾脏学学会领导层的全力支持。然而，由于差旅费和会议费用的原因，只有不到2%的与会者是接受培训的肾病学研究员。会议组委会和美国肾脏病学会的老年肾脏病咨询小组已经决定，增加同事的参与是至关重要的，因此我们需要克服经济障碍，阻止年轻医生获得他们在不久的将来提供最佳护理所需的知识。这份会议支持拨款申请解决了上述问题。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a one-time application for travel support to enable nephrologists in training to attend the only dedicated Geriatric nephrology conference in the US. This new direction in Nephrology is based on the realization that most patients treated by adult nephrologists are in the Geriatric age group, and currently adult nephrologists lack formal training in Geriatrics and/or knowledge about research breakthroughs in Geriatric Nephrology. Such changes in the population led to the ACGME mandate that all aspects of Geriatric Nephrology should be part of the teaching program for nephrology trainees. In order to address this new mandate and eliminate a potentially serious knowledge deficit an ambitious program has been rapidly developed to address this gap. The program consisted of establishing and conducting a formal teaching course at the annual American Society of Nephrology meeting and the development of a Geriatric Nephrology Curriculum which was posted on the American Society of Nephrology website. The course has been over-subscribed and the Nephrology Program Directors have endorsed the Geriatric Nephrology Curriculum attests to the broad support for training in Geriatrics by the adult Nephrology community and the full support of the Leadership of the American Society of Nephrology. However, due to the expenses of travel and conference fees less than 2% of all attendees were nephrology fellows in training. Conference Organizing committee and Geriatric Nephrology Advisory Group to the American Society of Nephrology has decided that increasing fellow participation is of paramount importance and therefore we need to overcome the financial barriers that prevent young physicians from acquiring the knowledge they will need to provide optimal care in the near future. This application for a conference support grant addresses aforementioned issue. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Bringing up physician training to the new standards that reflect changes in the community would improve the medical care and wellbeing of the patients who will be cared for by these physicians in the future. Support for this initiative is exemplified by the participation of the ASN in their commitment to forgo the conference registration fee for the fellows and the commitment from the ASP to partially support fellows' travels needs with a grant of their own.