Conservative Kidney Management Summit: Advancing Knowledge and Practice
- Continuing Education
Advance your expertise in Conservative Kidney Management by joining an immersive, inter-professional summit. Gain evidence-based insights, practical skills, and collaborative strategies to deliver high-quality, patient-centered CKM across diverse care settings.
- Live Online or In Person
This course is taught in person and online in real time.
Marshall A. Wolf Conference Room: 60 Fenwood Road, Boston, MA, 02115
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Overview
Conservative Kidney Management Summit: Advancing Knowledge and Practice is a course designed to provide physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, pharmacists, chaplains, and other health care professionals with the information and skills needed to provide high quality conservative kidney management (CKM) to patients in a variety of practice settings.
Taught by leading nephrology faculty from across the HMS network, the teaching and learning at the CKM summit will build the knowledge base and deliver actionable insights for individual clinicians and clinical teams caring for nephrology patients in a wide range of settings. The CKM summit will review evidence related to survival and symptoms of seriously ill patients who choose CKM over dialysis for kidney failure. It will highlight the patient and caregiver experience in CKM and emphasize the inter-professional team approach for providing high quality CKM in diverse health systems. In addition to intensive plenary sessions and interactive breakout sessions, learners can enjoy opportunities to engage informally with one another and with course faculty.
Breakout sessions will include building on communication skills for discussing kidney failure treatment options; non-dialytic uremic symptom management; and program development: How to deliver and measure high quality CKM.
Learning Objectives
- Understanding the clinical evidence and outcomes of CKM, including survival, symptom burden, and functional trajectories.
- Learning from global and interprofessional models to understand how CKM is implemented in diverse care settings.
- Developing and practicing communication skills to navigate conversations about dialysis, prognosis, and care preferences.
- Mastering non-dialytic symptom management strategies for managing common issues like pruritus, fatigue, nausea, and volume overload.
- Designing or enhancing CKM programs, including setting quality metrics and leveraging existing resources and curriculum.
- Assessing and addressing the unique psychosocial needs of patients and their caregivers who elect for CKM care.
Developed and Offered By:
Continuing Education courses are developed by faculty from Harvard Medical School's teaching hospitals and accredited by Harvard Medical School. This course is offered by Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Participant Types
Primary Care Physicians, Pharmacists, Psychologists, Physician Assistants, Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Other, Specialty Physicians
Faculty
Harvard Medical School Continuing Education attracts the best and brightest faculty from all around the world. As a student in this course, you’ll have access to outstanding course directors and faculty.
Joshua Lakin, MD
Course Director
Samantha Gelfand
Course Director
Kate Sciacca
Course Director
Caroline Taverna
Course Director
Lauren Greco
Course Director
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Course Fees
Fee Disclaimer
You may register through our secure online environment and will receive an email confirmation upon receipt of your payment. Virtual tuition includes electronic syllabus and access to recordings for 120 days after the course.
At the end of the registration process, a $10 non-refundable processing fee will be added to your registration.
| Role | Course Fee |
|---|---|
| Physician (MD/DO) | $100.00 |
| Nurse (RN/APRN) | $100.00 |
| PA | $100.00 |
| Psychologist | $100.00 |
| Resident/Fellow | $100.00 |
| Social Worker | $100.00 |
| Allied Health Professional / Other | $100.00 |
Accreditation
The Harvard Medical School designates this live activity for a maximum of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The American Medical Association (AMA) has an agreement of mutual recognition of continuing medical education (CME) credit with the European Union of Medical Specialties (UEMS). Additional information regarding this agreement may be found on the European Union of Medical Specialties website.
The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada recognizes conferences and workshops held outside of Canada that are developed by a university, academy, hospital, specialty society or college as accredited group learning activities.