[Social media for continuing education in nephrology. Myth or reality?].

About 60% of the world population has access to the Internet in 2021, making it the main tool in fostering communication between people. Lately, digital information and communication have especially taken place on platforms known as Social Media (SoMe) or Social Networks. In the last decade the usefulness of these tools in carrying information aimed at updating professionals in Medicine and Nephrology has become evident.

[Nephrology: where we stand and where we should go].

In the last year, the Italian National Health Service as a whole and the Nephrology community have been severely challenged by the pandemic. It has been a dramatic stress test for the entire healthcare system, not only in Italy but worldwide. The general organization of our Nephrology units and our models of care were put under extreme pressure, and we had to quickly adopt unprecedented clinical practice recommendations and organizational models to overcome the impasse caused by the pandemic.

[Italian Society of Nephrology’s 2018 census of renal and dialysis units: their structure and organization].

Given the public health challenge represented by chronic kidney disease, the Italian Society of Nephrology (SIN) promoted a census of the renal and dialysis units to analyze structural and human resources, organizational aspects, activities and workload, referring to the year 2018. An on-line questionnaire including 60 questions, exploring structural and human resources, organizational aspects, activities and epidemiological data referred to 2018, was sent to the heads of all identified Italian renal or dialysis unit. 567 renal units were identified, 3.