The use of virtual physician mentoring to enhance home dialysis knowledge and uptake

Home dialysis therapies are flexible kidney replacement strategies with documented clinical benefits. While the incidence of end-stage disease continues to increase globally, use home remains low in most developed countries. Multiple barriers providing have been noted published literature. Among known challenges, gaps clinician knowledge potentially addressable a focused education strategy. Recent national surveys United States and Australia highlighted need for enhanced especially among nephrologists who recently completed training. Traditional in-person continuing professional educational programmes had modest success promoting limited by scale present global COVID-19 pandemic. We hypothesize that ‘Hub Spoke’ model virtual mentorship based on project ECHO would support growth. review literature, plausible interventions address current limitations physician education.