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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...
Free online patient education resource available in 20 languages
I would like to introduce everyone to a free online patient education resource that has now been translated into 20 languages and has over 20 million hits - http://kidneyeducation.com/ A revised and updated English version, edited by Edgar Lerma, has now been digitized and is ready to be released.
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...