MOOC - Online course Clinical Kidney, Pancreas and Islet Transplantation
Kidney transplantation is a major advance of modern medicine which provides high-quality of life for patients with end-stage renal disease. What used to be an experimental, risky, and very limited treatment option more than 50 years ago is now routinely performed in many countries worldwide. The number of renal transplants is expected to rise sharply in the next decade since the proportion of patients with end stage renal disease is increasing. Are you interested in clinical kidney, pancreas and islet transplantation? If you are a (bio) medical student or a health care professional who works in the (pre) clinical transplant field this might be the course for you. This course is also for anyone interested in the research and knowledge on clinical transplantation. The course will be taught by a multidisciplinary team of transplant professionals and will give you the state of the art updates.
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As of the March 12th 2018 onwards, medical professionals can for the first time obtain Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit, for successfully finishing the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on kidney transplantation. Through interactive lectures, unique animated movies and real time videos, medical students , health care professionals and even transplant patients, learn everything about the world of clinical kidney transplantation. So far around 10,000 people worldwide, have already enrolled in the course.
Until now the course offered every learner the possibility to follow the course for free, purchase a verified certificate, or follow the course for academic credits (EC’s) as part of of the Virtual exchange program from 9 (inter)national universities. The options to obtain credits, expands with the option for Continuing Medical Education (CME). Depending on the workload, 5 to 13 credit points can be obtained in collaboration with Boerhaave Continuing Medical Education.
By earning credits, medical professionals can meet the requirement as professional to maintain their competence and update their knowledge about new developments in the field. By offering MOOCs, Leiden University aims to stimulate flexible, easy accessible, high quality education for learners world wide. In the future, Leiden university Medical Centre aims to accredited more of it’s MOOCs in order to stimulate ‘lifelong learning’ for medical professionals.
The Massive Open Online Course was developed in collaboration with the University’s Centre for Innovation. In the coming spring this course will be enriched with a unique learning track, involving 360 virtual reality on transplantation surgery. More information on the course and the CME accreditation can be found on the course page of the MOOC Clinical Kidney Transplantation
Target group: Health care professionals who work in the (pre) clinical transplant field, other health care professionals and general practitioners who would like to request CME credit for following the Clinical Kidney, Pancreas and Islet Transplantation MOOC
Boerhaave Nascholing