Online continuing education

The American Kidney Fund (AKF) offers online courses that meet the continuing education requirements of health care professionals caring for patients with, or at risk for, kidney disease. To earn credits, select a course, complete the learning module(s), and take the associated exam and evaluation.

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American Kidney Fund's free, accredited, online CE and CME courses address critical topics related to kidney disease and are designed to meet continuing education requirements for prescribers and allied health professionals. All courses are developed, and peer reviewed by renal subject matter experts.

Kidney Diseases: Making an Accurate Diagnosis in Clinical Practice

Target audience: Nephologists, PCPs, Geneticists/Counselors, Nurses, NPs

Primary learning objective: For HCPs to gain greater competence in their ability to provide an accurate diagnosis for kidney diseases

Educational partner: Medscape

Mineralocorticoid Receptor Antagonists: Addressing Residual Risk in Patients with Cardiac Disease, T2DM, and CKD

Target audience: Nephrologists, Cardiologists, Physicians

Primary learning objective: To provide cardiologists with information about the interrelationship of CVD and renal disease and the efficacy and safety of MRAs as well as expert guidance about the role of MRAs in the management of patients with T2DM, CKD, and CVD.

Educational partner: Rockpointe/CEA

Lowering the Burden of anemia in CKD: Looking to the Future with HIF-PHIs

Target audience: Nephrologists, Cardiologists, Nurses

Primary learning objective: To familiarize nephrology clinicians with the etiology of anemia in CKD, the effects on health outcomes, quality of life, and function, advantages and limitations of current management strategies and the economic advantages of their use, and the efficacy and safety data for HIF-PHIs in late-stage development for the management of CKD-related anemia.

Educational partner: Rockpointe/CEA

Anemia in patients with CVD and CKD: Current Management and Potential Role of HIF-PHIs

Target audience: Cardiologists, Nephrologists, Physicians

Primary learning objective: To provide physicians with information about the etiology of anemia in CKD, the effects on CV disease, HRQOL, and function, advantages and limitations of current management strategies, and the efficacy and safety data for HIF-PHIs in late-stage development for the management of CKD-related anemia.

Educational partner: Rockpointe/CEA