Innovations in Kidney Education Contest for 2023 has been paused. Please check back again in 2024
The 2023 contest is paused.
About the Contest
The ASN Innovations in Kidney Education Contest was launched in 2015 to stimulate the development of innovative tools to inspire students and trainees to think about nephrology in new ways.
Contest Goals
- Develop and share tools to enhance teaching in nephrology topics
- Generate excitement among students and trainees about the field of nephrology
- Engender interactions between all students, trainees, researchers, clinicians, and interprofessional team members
- Engage learners in ASN activities
- Create novel ideas for additional curricula development for medical and graduate students in the field of nephrology
What is the contest?
- Part 1: Idea Submission
Submission of ideas for an innovative teaching tool that will help teach nephrology - Part 2: Teaching Tool Submission
Development and submission of the new teaching tool
What are "innovative teaching tools?"
Innovative teaching tools may be videos, smartboard talks, games, apps, or other electronic teaching instruments.
Who can enter the contest?
The contest is open to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States and District of Columbia, who are at least 18 years old at the time of entry, and who are students and trainees (undergraduate, graduate, medical, PhD, resident, fellow, and post-doc trainees [documentation required]), faculty, practicing nephrologists, researchers, and other health professionals. Teams are encouraged to enter—only one prize will be awarded to the team. Interprofessional teamwork is encouraged. Click here for the official rules.
Click here to enter your Part 1: Idea Submission.
Questions?
Please email education@asn-online.org.
2022 Winners
- Channel your Enthusiasm: The Burton Rose Book Club
Joel M. Topf; Anna Gaddy; Melanie Hoenig; Edgar Lerma; Sai Sudha Mannemuddhu; Priti Meena; Roger Rodby; Dominique Tomacruz; Juan Carlos Velez; Joshua Waitzman; Amy Yau; and Leticia Rolon
Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine - Genomics of Kidney Disease Interactive Virtual Modules
Mira T. Keddis; Hana Newman; Harini Chakkera; Kara Mangold; Filippo Pinto e Vairo; Mireille El Ters; Marie Hogan; Timothy Curry
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine (Arizona) - kidney.wiki
Ryan Town
Stanford University School of Medicine
2021 Winners
- ABC Kidney
Sophia L. Ambruso, DO; Hongyi Zhang; Emily Qin; Samira S. Farouk, MD, MS, FASN; Matthew A. Sparks, MD, FASN
University of Colorado School of Medicine/Rocky Mountain Regional VAMC, Duke University, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai - Interactive Website on Nephrology Physiology, Pathophysiology, and Pharmacology
Ankur Shah, MD, FASN; Edward Medeiros, DO; Avrum Gillespie, MD
Brown University - Kidney Biopsy Interpretation for Medical Students
Mostafa Belghasem, MD, PhD
Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine
2020 Winners
- Henle Hero – Interactive Quiz Website
Gerren Hobby, MD; Manisha Singh, MD, MBBS, FASN; Michael G. Mackey, MD; Adam B. Woodruff, MD; Tracy Mullis, APRN; Sara Culbreath, APRN; Victoria Williams, APRN
NEA Baptist Hospital and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences - NephroPOCUS.com
Abhilash Koratala, MD, FASN
Medical College of Wisconsin - Peritoneal Dialysis Prescription Education Tool
Salma Shaikhouni, MD; Jonathan H. Segal, MD; Nidhi Sukul, MD
University of Michigan
2018 Winners
- NephSIM
Click here for the tool.
Samira S. Farouk, MD; Rachel Hilburg, MD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai; University of Pennsylvania - Hemodialysis Access 101
Click here for the tool.
Namrata Krishnan, MD and Gowthaman Gunabushanam, MD
Yale School of Medicine/VA Medical Center CT - Nephro360-Virtual Reality and Gaming
Aleksandr Vasilyev, MD, PhD; Dylan Carmichael; and Ivan Bandovic
New York Institute of Technology, College of Osteopathic Medicine
2017 Winners
- Glomcon Trivia and Case Conferences
Click here for the tool.
Nikhil Agrawal, MD; Ali Poyan-Mehr, MD; Vela Parada; Xavier Fernando; Stewart H. Lecker, MD, FASN; Diana Calleros
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School - CRRT Virtual Patient Simulator (Mobile App)
Click here for the tool.
Benjamin Griffin, MD; Sarah Faubel, MD; Diana I. Jalal, MD; John M. Carson, MD; Anna J. Jovanovich, MD; Jessica B. Kendrick, MD, MPH
University of Colorado - Renal Physiology Online Adaptive Learning Platform
Click here for the tool.
Yaagnik Kosuri; Patrick H. Van Nieuwenhuizen; Karambir Khangoora, MD; Krystof Kiryluk, MD; Qais Al-Awqati, MBChB
Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons
2016 Winners
- OPENPediatrics Hemodialysis Simulator
Click here for the tool.
Deborah R. Stein, MD; Annalise Littman, BS; Mignon McCulloch, MD; Daniel Hames, MD; Aleksandra E. Olszewski, MD; Sharon W. Su, MD; Traci A. Wolbrink, MD, MPH - Hyponatremia Illustrated Interactive Powerpoint
Click here for the tool.
Tamim Hamdi, MD; Kamalanatham Sambandam, MD; UT Southwestern - Renal Pathology Web Episodes
Timothy Yau, MD, Washington University School of Medicine
2015 Winners
- Water Homeostasis
John Danziger, MD and Team; Nephrologist; Harvard Medical School - The Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy Simulator
Kamalana K. Sambandam, MD; Nephrologist, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School - Nephropoly: Urine Trouble (Board game focused on physiology of the nephron)
Dorey A. Glenn, MD and Team; Fellow, University of North Carolina Kidney Center