Intensive Review of Nephrology is a course dedicated to the most comprehensive review of nephrology offered by the clinical faculty of Harvard Medical School.
Topics
- Current evidence-based treatment and care management strategies to optimize patient outcomes
- The latest options for diagnosis: what to choose, when, and why
- Navigating clinical controversies
- Improved approaches to common and complex clinical challenges
- Test-taking strategies and skills development
- How to avoid medical mistakes
- Genetic testing for improved prognosis and selection of therapy
- Introduction to point-of-care ultrasound: fundamentals for optimal image acquisition and accurate interpretation
- Physical exam of the dialysis access
- Expanding the role of SGLT2i in diabetic and non-diabetic kidney disease
- Cases in cryptonephrology
- The new fundamentals in immunology and nephrology (it’s not just for transplant patients)
- Glomerulonephritis
- Electrolytes and acid base
- Chronic kidney disease
- Acute kidney injury
- Vascular disease
- Genetic kidney disease
- End-stage renal disease
- Hypertension
- Metabolic management of kidney stones
- Transplantation
- Pregnancy and renal disease
- Cancer and the kidney
- Case-based presentations
- Pediatric nephrology for the adult nephrologist
- Point-of-care renal ultrasound
Who should Attend
Physicians, NPs, PAs seeking a comprehensive update of the state of the art in nephrology and physicians preparing to certify/recertify.
