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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
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| Textbook | Our online short textbook on clinical nephrology. Clinical companion and learning resource - M N C P |
| Core cases | For medical students but widely relevant - M C |
| UTI | A page of info beyond the standard textbook - M N C |
| Urine analysis and testing | in preparation - 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. Flash 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 - M N C |
Work in progress ...
| Acid base balance tutorial | Currently Edinburgh-only, sorry (Eros - convert to Labyrinth? Add pH values as well as [H+]) - M There's another on acid-base basics (Revision, also needs conversion) |
| Hypertension | Currently Edinburgh-only, sorry (Eros - convert to Labyrinth? Lose last page) online educational case includes causes, choice of agent, mechanisms of action - M N C |
| Cases in acute renal failure | Currently Edinburgh-only, sorry (Eros - convert to Labyrinth? Change multi-match Q) |
| Also wanted ... |
(and adapt ARF resource from ITU Y5? - M) Video on examining the renal system: need to remake this CKD resource - planned; needed (until then, 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
- Learning objectives for medical students in Edinburgh, Malawi and elsewhere, quite detailed
- Learning objectives for Clinical officers - nurses - other professions .... will follow, see Pathways
- CPD for postgraduates in other specialties ... to follow too.
Other recommended, freely available resources
- The UK CKD eGuide is excellent to work through to gain an understanding of current primary care management of CKD. M C P
- NHS Clinical Knowledge Summaries (Clinical Knowledge Summaries) include a number of excellent relevant topics, see Kidneys on the left hand menu, and for example, Lower urinary tract infection in women. Though aimed mainly at primary care topics they are quite long and detailed, 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. P or advanced reading for M N C
- Pre-finals lecture by Dr Adam Feather - if you like lectures, Dr Feather's Renal 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
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