In India, nearly 200 persons per million population suffer from End Stage Kidney Failure (ESKF) every year and they require maintenance dialysis and/or kidney transplant. There is acute shortage of qualified nephrologists to provide dialysis to these patients.
The School of Health Sciences, IGNOU is offering a one year post doctoral certificate in Dialysis Medicine in collaboration with DGHS, MoHFW. In this programme post graduate doctors with MD in medicine or paedetrics will be trained to handle stand alone dialysis units. They will be posted in tertiary hospitals identified by the Ministry for a period of six months for this training. The admissions for July 2013 session is open. last date for submitting the filled in application is June 15, 2013. More details about the programme are available on the IGNOU website.