Acute and Chronic Kidney Disease Contemporary Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures University of Tartu

Overview

On-site in Tartu 28 July – 8 August 2025

Multimorbidity is increasingly becoming the norm, particularly in the older population, and presents enormous challenges for patients and their doctors. Diagnosis has important implications for multimorbid patient care, research, and medical policy. The diagnostic process is a complex, patient-centered, collaborative activity that involves information gathering and clinical reasoning to determine a patient's health problem

Multimorbidity, defined as the presence of multiple chronic conditions in an individual, is highly prevalent in clinical practice today. For people with multimorbidity, consideration needs to be given to individualising care and designing it around each person's needs and priorities.

The course includes biochemical-, immunological-, genetic laboratory, instrumental assessments, theory discussions, practical measurements, and interpretation. Additionally, multimorbid patients' case-based discussions and treatment procedures are performed or viewed as well.

Learning outcomes: 

After the completion of this course, learners should be able to:

• Perform simple medical procedures.
• Interpret the laboratory and instrumental assessments
• Perform body composition assessments.
• Recognise pathomechanisms of glomerular injury and debate the usage of genetic testing in rare diseases.
• Demonstrate skills in analysing and resolving clinical cases and treatment options of multimorbid patients.
• Collaborate with other members of the health care team to ensure comprehensive care of the multimorbid patient.

Accreditation

Every seven years, all Estonian higher education institutions must undergo external evaluation – institutional accreditation. The latest assessment took place in 2022. The assessment council of the Estonian Quality Agency for Education decided to accredit the University of Tartu for the next seven years (2023-2029).