L1: Kidney injury.

• Understand types of kidney injury.
• Identify the etiologies of kidney injury.
• Differentiate between acute & chronic kidney injury.
• Understand the pathophysiology of the causes of kidney injury.
• Enumerate the stages & laboratory changes in acute & chronic kidney injury.

L2: Glomerular diseases.

• Understand the pathophysiology of glomerular diseases.
• Compare & contrast between nephrotic & nephritic syndromes.
• Get the basic concept of all the etiologies of both nephrotic & nephritic syndromes.
• Identify the general spectrum of both syndromes.
• Correlate the clinical findings & signs to these syndromes.

L3: Tubular diseases.

• To understand the different syndromes & pathophysiology of tubular diseases.
• Compare & contrast between different etiologies of ischemic tubular diseases.
• Understand the toxic nature of some tubular diseases.
• Compare between the toxic causes & ischemic causes of tubular diseases.

L4: Congenital kidney diseases.

• Understand the most common congenital kidney diseases and their effects later in life.
• Get hold of the associations that are common with congenital kidney diseases.