 |
Resources for renal medicine. All professions, all stages. |
What do I need to know? Other recommended resources |
Shortcut to this page: www.edrep.org/resources
Our Learning Resources on renal medicine
Good for: M medical students; N renal nurses; C primary care, clinical officers; P postgraduate medicine
| Click on the title to go there | |
| Textbook | Our online elementary short textbook on clinical nephrology. Clinical companion and learning resource - M N C P |
| Kidney disease in 3 minutes | Lightning fast introduction - M , patients and anyone |
| Core cases | Outline core presentations that medical students need to know, with some links - M C |
| UTI | A page of info beyond the standard textbook - M N C |
| Diet in renal disease | Quite an advanced tutorial - M N P |
| Glomerulonephritis | The Music of Glomerulonephritis - without the music. Quite an advanced lecture, how and what. Flashy version with music to follow - M P |
| Interstitial renal disease |
A short Flash lecture-type presentation on interstitial renal disease - M P Then a quiz on 7 cases of patients with glomerular or interstitial disease. |
| Fluid balance and therapy | Online tutorial that revises fluid compartments and goes on to an introduction to fluid prescribing, with self-assessment (also in the online textbook) - M N C |
| JVP and fluid assessment resources | From YouTube and free resources elswhere; beginner to expert - M N C P |
| AKI Cases | 3 cases to try your hand at - M N C |
| Acid base teaching | |
| CKD - a virtual clinic | Many short, real primary care questions, with answers and links to learning resources (work in progress) - M N C |
| Short Virtual cases in Renal Medicine | From the Virtual Clinic series, a number of cases of inpatient and outpatient renal medicine, for teaching and revision. - M C P |
| Hypertension tutorial | Using a case, goes through the approach to diagnosis and management of hypertension, shows BHS-NICE summarised guidance, then covers the major classes of agent. - M N C |
Outstanding free resources from elsewhere
| Click on the title to go there | Good for: M medical students; N renal nurses; C primary care, clinical officers; P postgraduate medicine |
| Hyponatraemia: two interactive cases |
Two excellent Flash animations on hyponatraemia from Mitch Halperin/Razeen Davids - M C |
| The UK CKD eGuide | Work through this to gain an understanding of current primary care management of CKD. M C P |
| NHS Clinical Knowledge Summaries confusingly this seems remarkably similar: Prodigy |
Include a number of excellent relevant topics, see Kidneys on the left hand menu, then are listed a number of topcis including urinary tract infections of all types, and CKD. Aimed mainly at primary care topics, but very clear and recommendations are clearly justified. From outside the UK you need to register to access this, but it is simple and free. - M N C |
| CKS on CKD | Is particularly useful. - M N C |
| CKS on hypertension in primary care | Is very good too. - M N C |
Coming soon from us ...
| Jeremy Levy's AKI cases | in preparation - M N C |
| Urine analysis and testing | in preparation - M N C |
| Acid base balance tutorial | Nearly ready, figure needs tweaking ... online educational case - M There's another on acid-base basics (Revision, also needs conversion) |
| Hypertension | Nearly ready ... online educational case includes causes, choice of agent, mechanisms of action - M N C |
| Also ... |
(adapt ARF resource from Edinburgh ITU Y5? - M) Video on examining the renal system: need to remake this CKD resource - until new resources complete, the UK CKD eGuide is good |
What do I need to know?
These are links to learning objectives in 'Pathways' for different professionals, unless you'd prefer the very basic introduction Kidney disease in 3 minutes
- Core learning - anyone new to Renal Medicine might want to brief themselves on this; or run through the short Edren Textbook
- Learning objectives for medical students in Edinburgh, Malawi and elsewhere, quite detailed
- Learning objectives for Clinical officers - nurses - other professions .... may follow, see Pathway
Other recommended free info sources
- If you like lectures, Dr Adam Feather's pre-finals Renal revision lecture is good late revision (from Barts & The London Medical School). One or two slips - renal hypertension isn't really all Renin, and his lists of causes of ARF/CRF are rubbish, for instance. Video, requires good bandwidth. M P
- Kidney Research UK YouTube channel - not just research, also videos about CKD. M N C
- The History of Nephrology Blog is an introduction to the very informative history of dialysis and transplantation - why we do what we do. It has links to other places but there is a more definitive list of history links coming to edren. M N C P
- iTunesU has some lectures, mostly on anatomy/physiology. Not so impressed with their additional value so far, tell us if you'd like to differ. You need a good Internet connection to download many of them. - M
- Podcasts are turning into a real resource
- Pathology mini-tutorials, short video podcasts from Dr Geoff Hulman at Nottingham University are really good and some cover renal topics. (Link should open iTunes store - otherwise go there and search for 'Pathology'
- Learning Radiology short video podcasts from Dr William Herring at Albert Einstein, Philadelphia are impressive, and so is his website www.learningradiology.com
- See some book suggestions (free from a library) on our Textbook's further info page
- iPhone apps aren't free but many are inexpensive. We like Acid Plus to learn acid-base balance (quite advanced, but play makes learning fun?) - M P
Not free, but good:
If you are seeing this, you have attempted to link to the UpToDate widget but are experiencing a problem. Please visit UpToDate for more information.
Daughter pages of this page
| Misc << | >> Search |
