Intensive Review of Nephrology

Intensive Review of Nephrology is a course dedicated to the most comprehensive review of nephrology offered by the clinical faculty of Harvard Medical School.

Intensive Review of Nephrology covers topics such as:

• 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

Intensive Review of Nephrology brings together physicians, NPs, PAs seeking a comprehensive update of the state of the art in nephrology and physicians preparing to certify/recertify.

Intensive Review of Nephrology will be held on 09-13 Aug 2021.