The ISN Academy is the International Society of Nephrology’s educational platform, designed and curated by the ISN Education Working Group (EWG). The ISN Academy has hundreds of hours of original content developed and published each year under EWG’s guidance and review. You will find content from regionally diverse group of presenters and contributors, from high and low to middle-income countries to ensure relevance to all who work in the nephrology community.
ISN Academy News
Join the ISN endorsed Infectious and Global Nephrology Course 2017 at a reduced rate
ISN Members can register, at a reduced rate, for the upcoming ISN endorsed Infectious and Global Nephrology Course 2017, taking place at the Royal Free Hospital in London on March 22 and 23, 2017. This two-day course will cover renal disease secondary to infectious agents and the management of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) and Chronic...
Students and experts delve into the case of acid base and electrolyte disorders
As a member of the ISN South Asia Regional Board and the organizing chairman of the symposium, I attended the ISN endorsed symposium on acid base and electrolyte disorders held at the Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences on January 21, 2017. We welcomed speakers from ISN including Dr Gopalakrishnan, Dr Fernando and Dr Parameshwaran who...
Watch ISN-KDIGO webinar Common Elements of Rare Diseases
Don’t miss this Thursday’s ISN-KDIGO webinar on ’Common Elements of Rare Diseases' with Julie Rich Ingelfinger. This online talk is part of a webinar series organized with KDIGO. It will take place at 10AM EST (New York) on Thursday December 15, 2016. The presentation sets out to understand challenges in diagnosing and treating rare diseases...
WCN2017: Long-term education for all
WCN 2017 is about sustainable and diverse nephrology teaching. Several courses offer continuous learning for nephrologists of all levels. Register for the early bird deadline before January 23, 2017. This time around, the WCN 2017 scientific program is complemented by novel Nephrology Biennial Review (NBR) courses given in English, Spanish and Portuguese, covering the most...
Apply for the University of British Columbia’s home dialysis clinical scholar training program
The Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia is seeking applications for the home dialysis clinical scholar training program: 2018-2019. This is a 12-month fellowship offered through a collaboration with the BCPRA and UBC Division of Nephrology. Deadline is April 20, 2017. While the practice of nephrology will always require...
ISN ANIO apprenticeships: hands-on training for India’s renal pathologists
As a young pathologist working at Madras Medical Mission Hospital in Chennai and through her ties with ISN ANIO Programs, Priyanka Koshy got the opportunity to gain further training at the University of Vanderbilt. She explains how Prof. Georgi Abraham, head of Madras Medical Mission’s Institute of Kidney, Urology and Organ Transplantation, gave her the...