Curriculum
| Three months certification course in Chronic Kidney Disease (with contact program) | Curriculum | |
| Three months certificate course in chronic kidney disease only online | Curriculum |
About this course
This course provides a comprehensive clinical approach to chronic kidney disease (CKD), focusing on identifying reversible causes, slowing disease progression, and managing CKD due to diabetic and non-diabetic conditions. It covers assessment, diagnosis, and treatment strategies for glomerular diseases, UTIs, and kidney stones. You'll learn about vascular access for dialysis, indications for referral, and management in special populations like pregnant women, children, and the elderly. Key topics include hypertension and diabetes in CKD, nutritional therapy, and care for dialysis and transplant patients. The course also emphasises on the importance of early detection and individualized patient care.
3 days contact program at KMC, Manipal (for blended learning participants)
To apply for the course, please click here
About MAHE
Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) is one of India's leading academic and research institutions. It has been granted Institution of Eminence status by the Ministry of Education, Government of India. Manipal Institutions have long been distinguished for excellence in professional education. The University is home to some of the top ranking institutions across diverse disciplines.
Course Directors
Dr. Saurabh Pokhariyal
Principal Director, Nephrology and Renal Transplant Medicine, Max Super Speciality Hospital, Dwarka New Delhi
I would like to welcome you to this course on chronic kidney disease (CKD). As a major non-communicable disease, CKD is assuming epic proportions across the world. Treatment of advanced renal disease by dialysis or renal transplantation is prohibitively expensive and in low-income countries very few patients can afford such care. The focus should therefore be on preventing kidney disease or slowing the progression of CKD so that dialysis or transplantation can be avoided. We have put together a comprehensive module on diagnosing, classifying and managing all aspects of CKD and it should go a long way in helping our primary care physicians in caring for such patients.
Dr Kieran Walsh
Clinical director - BMJ Learning and Quality BMJ, UK
Dr Kieran Walsh is Clinical Director at BMJ. He is the clinical lead of the medical education and clinical decision support products at BMJ. He has a vast amount of experience in online medical education, clinical decision support, face to face delivery of medical education, and both summative and formative assessment. He has published over 200 papers in biomedical literature and has written four books: the first and only book on cost effectiveness in medical education; a dictionary of quotations in medical education; a history of medical education in 100 images; and the Oxford Textbook of Medical Education. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Educators, and Adjunct Associate Professor at Monash University. In the past he has worked as a hospital doctor specialising in General Internal Medicine and Geriatric Medicine.
Eligibility criteria
Candidates must hold an MBBS degree from a recognised institute.
Contact Us
For more information, please write to us at education.india@bmj.com or you can call us at 91-120-4345733, +919650052070 (09:30 AM - 05:00 PM, Monday to Friday).
Course Objectives
- Understand the treatment of reversible causes of renal failure in a patient with chronic kidney disease (CKD), and implement measures to slow the progression of kidney disease
- Basic principles of clinical assessment and management of CKD due to diabetic and other non-diabetic kidney diseases, glomerular diseases, UTIs, and renal calculi diseases
- Evaluate the need, various types, and correct time for creating a vascular access in dialysis
- Identify high-risk groups; understand the pathophysiology; decode the clinical presentation; form the diagnosis of CKD, and prevent its complications
- Explore complete management of CKD and indications for referral to a nephrologist
- Understand and evaluate chronic kidney disease in special populations like pregnant women, the elderly, and children
- Learn the management of CKD associated with diabetes and hypertension
- Learn to manage protein-energy wasting by understanding focused nutritional therapy.
About the Department of Nephrology, Kasturba Hospital, KMC, Manipal
It is a recognized teaching centre for training DM Nephrology since 2011. It is one of the earliest established centre and serves as a tertiary-care referral facility for coastal and interior Karnataka, North Kerala and Goa with experienced faculty. The department focuses on providing clinical services, teaching and clinical research. Patients get access to all speciality services under one roof. During your Contact program, you have supervised access to vast and varied clinical material through the attached 2000-bed Kasturba Hospital, Manipal.
Our team is highly motivated and dedicated. We provide services covering the gamut of clinical Nephrology including treating OPD patients, Inpatients, critical care Nephrology, acute kidney injury, CKD, kidney transplantation (live, cadaver, ABO incompatible) and perform all nephrology procedures such as kidney biopsies, central venous catheterization both temporary and tunnelled, hemodialysis, CRRT, plasmapheresis, hemoperfusion and peritoneal dialysis both acute and CAPD. We also have dedicated Paediatric Nephrology and renal Supportive Care subspecialty divisions.
