Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital Board Review

Prep for board exams, enhance your knowledge and improve your diagnostic skill set with this comprehensive review of renal medicine.

Course Directors :

Anil Chandraker, MD
Jamil Azzi, MD
Gearoid McMahon, MB, BAO, BCh
Ajay K. Singh, MBBS, FRCP (UK), MBA
Joseph V. Bonventre, MD, PhD

The Brigham Renal Board Review Course is designed to enhance renal medicine knowledge by offering a comprehensive update; a case-based review of challenging clinical problems; and a review of literature to guide evidence based practice. This course can also serve to prepare attendees for the ABIM Board Examinations (Certification/Recertification), and offers daily board review question & answer practice sessions in each specialty area of nephrology. The program will also consist of daily case-based lectures & meet the professor luncheons covering the most important topics in renal medicine. Throughout the course, emphasis will be placed on the practical application of physiological principles to the understanding and management of clinical problems particularly for board exam preparation.

In addition, a self-study enduring material, available on DVD, CD, MP3 and MP4, containing all general session lectures recorded from this live activity (with the exception of lunch sessions) will be included and offered as an additional ‘desk-top’ teaching tool to help prepare for the board exams. This enduring material will be offered to attendees on site, as well as for purchase by non-attendees who wish to view or listen to the courses, take the post-test, and receive credit. For non-attendees it will offer a chance for them to view or listen to live lectures in preparation for the renal board review, and for onsite attendees, it is a chance to reinforce their education.

The Brigham Renal Board Review Course 2015

A Comprehensive Nephrology Update

Recorded during the annual live course, this program of 42 state-of-the-art lectures provides a comprehensive update and review of renal medicine. It is designed to enhance your understanding and management of common clinical problems in all areas of nephrology and is focused on identifying the patterns, links and associations that lead to proper diagnosis. The program is ideal for clinical and academic nephrologists, internists, pediatricians and primary care physicians/trainees preparing for ABIM nephrology certification/recertification examinations and/or seeking a comprehensive review of nephrology. Through case-based reviews, the course enhances your knowledge so that you may confidently incorporate the latest guidelines into your practice. The course will help you to better:

• Summarize current/recommended nephrology guidelines in clinical practice
• Explain the differential diagnosis of complex clinical presentations of patients with renal disorders
• Identify/integrate current therapeutic options for specific renal disorders
• Review and interpret up-to-date literature relevant to clinical practice
• Describe pathophysiological mechanisms as they apply to management of renal disease
• Apply learning objectives to the ABIM Nephrology certification/recertification examinations

 The Brigham Renal Board Review Course 2015

TOPICS/SPEAKERS

Dialysis

• Nephrology Cases – Bradley M. Denker, MD

• MBD Overview for the Boards – David Bushinsky, MD
• Pearls in MBD – David Bushinsky, MD

• Dialysis Dose – J. Kevin Tucker, MD
• Dialysis: Overview for the Boards – J. Kevin Tucker, MD

• Dialysis Vascular Access – Dirk M. Hentschel, MD, PhD

• Peritoneal Dialysis: An Overview – Joanne M. Bargman, MD, FRCPC
• PD Complications – Joanne M. Bargman, MD, FRCPC

• Poisonings and Intoxications – Albert Q. Lam, MD

• Nephrology Board Review 4 – Melissa Y. Yeung, MD

• Nephrology Board Review 5 – Finnian McCausland, MD

• Kidney Stone Cases – Gary C. Curhan, MD, ScD

Accreditation

The Harvard Medical School is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Learning Objectives

After viewing this program, participants will be better able to:

• Summarize current/recommended nephrology guidelines in clinical practice
• Explain the differential diagnosis of complex clinical presentations of patient with renal disorders
• Identify/integrate current therapeutic options for specific renal disorders
• Review and interpret up-to-date literature relevant to clinical practice
• Describe pathophysiological mechanisms as they apply to management of renal disease
• Apply learning objectives to the ABIM Nephrology certification/recertification examinations

Intended Audience

Clinical and academic nephrologists, internists, pediatricians and primary care physicians/trainees preparing for ABIM nephrology certification/recertification examinations and/or seeking a comprehensive update in renal medicine and its subspecialties.

Date of Original Release: October 1, 2015