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Editorial
. 2025 Jul;86(1):125-128.
doi: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2024.11.017. Epub 2025 Feb 9.

One Year at AJKD: A Perspective From the 2023-2024 Editorial Interns

George Vasquez-Rios  1 , Rachel Shulman  2 , Megan Urbanski  3 , Emmanuel A Adomako  4 , Michael L Granda  5
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Editorial

One Year at AJKD: A Perspective From the 2023-2024 Editorial Interns

George Vasquez-Rios et al. Am J Kidney Dis. 2025 Jul.

Abstract

After an enriching year in the editorial internship program at the American Journal of Kidney Diseases (AJKD), we reflect on the valuable lessons that we learned throughout the year. Engaging in the editorial and medical publishing process, we gained experience in critical appraisal and the role of scholarship in the nephrology community. In this Perspective, each editorial intern highlights 5 manuscripts published in AJKD between August 2023 and June 2024, offering commentary on specific aspects that, in our perspective, hold particularly high clinical or research significance.

Keywords: Internship; appraisal.

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