Academic
The department runs two academic courses- A three-year DM Nephrology course with an annual intake of 02 candidates per year and a three-year graduate course in BSc Allied Health Sciences - Dialysis Technology (BSc AHS DT), with a yearly intake of 05 candidates. The academic courses are designed to provide comprehensive training in clinical care as well as research.
The academic schedule for the DM Nephrology course
| Monday | 8:00 -8:30 am | Short topic presentation |
| Tuesday | 8:00 -8:30 am 3:00 -4:30pm | Short topic presentation Seminar |
| Wednesday | 8:00 -8:30 am 3:00 -4:30pm | Short topic presentation Nephro-pathology meet (alternate weeks ) |
| Thursday | 8:00 -8:30 am 3:00 -4:30pm | Short topic presentation Bedside case discussion |
| Friday | 8:00 -8:30 am | Short topic presentation |
| Saturday | 8:00 -8:30 am 11:30-1:00 pm | Short topic presentation Journal Club Morbidity Moratlty Meet / Statistics |
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- Conferences and CME’S organized by Department
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- 21-01-2011: CME on Glomerular Diseases
- 29-08-2011 : ‘Samsaara – The Circle of Life’ A CME on Brain Death and Organ Donation Awareness for the state of Pondicherry, in collaboration with the Department of Health & family welfare and MOHAN Foundation, Chennai
- 2-11-2011: Guest lecture by Dr Jai Radhakrishnan on ‘the epidemic of Diabetic Kidney Disease – what can we do?’ organised in collaboration with JIPMER Scientific Society Meeting.
- 06-03-2012: "From Despair to Hope" - Symposium on Preventive Nephrology, with Dr Rajiv Saran as the main faculty and chief guest.
- 14-03 2013: World Kidney Day Celebration and CME on 'Acute Kidney Injury
- 24 -09-2013: JIPMER Nephrology Update 2013 - CME on Hypertension, endorsed & funded by Indian Society of Nephrology, Supported by the Educational Ambassador Program of the International Society of Nephrology and Accredited by Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University as Category II CME Program.
- 5 -10-2014: Nephrology Update 2014 - CME on Kidney Transplantation, organised in collaboration with Dept of Nephrology, Madras Medical College
- 15-11-2015: Nephrology Update 2015 - Critical Care Nephrology, One day CME on Critical Care Nephrology, Organised in partnership with Division of Nephrology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, USA and supported by the International Society of Nephrology's Educational Ambassador Program and Sister Renal Center Program.
- 9-03-2016: World Kidney Day 2016 - "Kidney Disease and Children - Act Early to Prevent it", Half day CME was organised on 'Childhood Kidney Diseases.”
- 10-12 February 2017: 37th Annual Conference of Indian Society of Nephrology Southern Chapter (ISNSCCON 2017)
- 9-03-2017: ‘Kidney Disease & Obesity, Half day CME was organised on “Kidney Disease & Obesity.”
- 07-03-2018:World Kidney Day CME-“ Kidney’s and Women's Health” Department of Nephrology
- 12-02-2019: IAPEN Clinical Nutrition Updates Symposium Series, Puducherry in collaboration with IAPEN, Puducherry chapter
- 14-03-2019: World Kidney Day CME- “Kidney health for everyone –everywhere.”