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

Abbreviations: American Society of Nephrology (ASN), Students and Residents (STARS), Tutored Research and Education for Kidney Scholars (TREKS)

^aAnnual educational conference for trainees held in Little Rock, AR (http://kidneycon.org)

^bAnnual online educational competition (https://www.tourneytopia.com/ajkd/nephmadness)

^cUniversity of Texas at Southwestern, Mayo Clinic, University of Kentucky, Henry Ford Health System, et al.