Education

Educational site visit to Cambodia

Bernadette Thomas travelled to Phnom Penh, Cambodia for an educational site visit and evaluated the possibility of carrying out an acute kidney injury incidence study. This blog post details the outcome of her trip. Medical Students who are at the end of their medical training assembled for two teaching sessions over two consecutive days. Day...

This week in ISN Education

This week ISN Education brings a collection of presentations from ISN leaders on the topic of Acute Kidney Injury that were presented within the context of recent Continuing Medical Education programs in Indonesia and Mexico. The presentations cover recent advances in nephrology and treatment strategies. CLICK HERE for further information.

New Dialysis Webinar Series begins this week

In collaboration with ISN’s Dialysis Committee, ISN Education is launching a new series of webinars focused on prominent themes in dialysis in 2016 and 2017. They will be moderated by renowned dialysis experts. The first will kick off next on June 10, 2016 with Brett Cullis’ talking about "PD Access in Acute and Chronic Kidney...

ISN ANIO CNC Program success published in KI

Kidney International (KI) has now reported on the success of the ISN ANIO Online Clinical Nephropathology Certificate (CNC) Program as an innovative form of training for renal pathologists globally. ISN and the American Nephrologists of Indian Origin (ANIO) developed a year-long web-based Clinical Nephrology Certificate Program for physicians looking for training in the principles and...

Next Science Writing Academy set for September

Following this year’s World Kidney Day, The Mario Negri Institute is happy to announce that there will be another edition of the Scientific Writing Academy, taking place from September 12 to 18, 2016  in Ranica, Bergamo, Italy. Fighting kidney diseases involves research and publication, as much as working directly with patients. “Our academy hopes to...

The influence of diet on kidney stones

Having discussed the influence of lifestyle modification on prevention of chronic kidney disease in previous columns extensively, I will now turn my attention to its effect on prevention of kidney stones. Almost five percent of adults in the US suffer from kidney stones, with more than half having multiple recurrences. Patients end up in...

New Cochrane Library released: Corticosteroids for nephrotic syndrome in children

In partnership with Cochrane Kidney and Transplant, ISN Education is pleased to present new Cochrane Library materials on Corticosteroids for nephrotic syndrome in children. This Cochrane review evaluates how corticosteroids treatment might be safely and most effectively used to treat steroid-sensitive nephrotic syndrome in children. Find out more, HERE. In addition to this publication on ISN Education, the full Cochcrane review...

ISN Forefronts: The metabolome and microbiome connection

Kumar Sharma shares his views on the theme of the ISN Forefronts symposium - the interaction of the metabolome and microbiome and its link to kidney disease. San Diego is the location of the first of two* ISN Forefronts Symposia in 2016. The city is the bed of much fundamental knowledge on metabolites that has led to many breakthroughs in...

New GOP article on publicly-funded renal replacement therapy in Brazil

This week ISN Education is proud to present a new research article published from the Global Outreach Postings (GOP) Program. Submitted by Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos Junior, the article, "Prevalence of patients receiving publicly-funded renal replacement therapy in Brazil: regional inequities and costs," will also be published in a next edition of The Open Urology &...

Four chapters of Understanding Kidney Diseases available on ISN Education

ISN Education has released four free chapters of Understanding Kidney Diseases by Hugh Rayner, Mark Thomas and David Milford. Kidney diseases and the speciality of nephrology have traditionally been regarded as difficult to understand, particularly due to the use of complex definitions and terminology. This text aids medical students and trainee doctors in developing their knowledge...

Presentations from SLANH’s AKI Online Course available in Spanish

In partnership with the Latin-American Society of Nephrology and Hypertension (SLANH), ISN Education is pleased to release presentations from SLANH’s Online Course: AKI in Primary Health Care. These presentations are in Spanish and were part of a previous online e-learning module. ISN Education offers various content throughout various topical channels, Ask the Expert and Educational Webinars and...

Germany-Belarus: A multidisciplinary approach to studying nephrology

This blog post is provided by Kirill Komissarov at the Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education in Minsk, Belarus. Fellows from the Charite Clinic University Clinic in Berlin, Germany spent a month with two fellows from the Minsk center thanks to an ISN Sister Renal Center partnership. Local medical professionals Aliaksandra Hashchuk is an intensivist and...

ISN Education releases new AKI presentations from CRRT and WCN 2015

This week, ISN Education is sharing its latest resources on the topic of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI). The team have added two new video presentations from the AKI & CRRT Conference 2015 held in San Diego, California last February. This year’s chosen theme was Updates in ICU Medicine: Controversies, Challenges and Solutions. In addition to this...

New ISN Education videos from the Pathology Committee

ISN Education is excited to put forward two videos on pathology tissue handling produced by Surya Seshan and her Electron Microscopy laboratory team at Weill Cornell Medicine. The videos demonstrate the tissue triaging procedure for renal needle core biopsies that are delivered in both fresh and fixed/preserved states to the laboratory, and expands on the...

WCN 2015 Presentations Collection

Many thanks to everybody who took part in ISN's biennial World Congress of Nephrology (WCN). It was a great pleasure to host this congress in the wonderful city of Cape Town, South Africa. For those who were unable to attend the event, ISN Education has prepared this comprehensive reperitory of presentations that given during the Congress. We hope...

SAMA Renal Review Course and Update

Registrations are now open for a course set up by SAMA, a non-profit professional organization of Sudanese American physicians. As part of its educational programs, it offers this annual comprehensive renal review course to consultants and trainees in Sudan in partnership with the Sudanese Nephrology Society. It covers aspects of basic renal physiology, electrolytes and...

The Mario Negri Scientific Writing Academy – a must for science writing

With support from Fondazione della Comunità Bergamasca, Fluorseals SPA, and ISN, the Mario Negri Institute has run the Scientific Writing Academy (SWA) since 2012. The workshop helps physicians and researchers from a range of backgrounds and specializations fine-tune their writing skills. Achieving and maintaining high standards in science writing is crucial to advancing research as...

Interventional nephrology training responds to the need for better vascular care globally

The global growth of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) patients has resulted in an increasing number surviving on renal replacement therapy. Hemodialysis remains a predominant form of renal replacement therapy. Providing optimal dialysis vascular access care remains a challenging task. The birth of interventional nephrology represents a field dedicated to understanding and treating complex vascular access...