Is this included in my organisation's licence?

Yes. An organisation's licence includes every track, core and branch, with the Platform, Medical City, Essentia, the App and the dashboard. Your organisation enrols you on the track, and it appears under My track; there is nothing extra to buy.

Can I take it on my own?

Yes, as a Deep Dive for $199 one-time, or in the Ready Technician Full family for $899. One payment opens it for 12 months under My track: the track's lessons, labs, Medical City scenarios, the certificate and the track mentor (100 questions per track, more with credit top-ups). General Essentia, the Studios and Design are not included. Where a week asks for your organisation's own documents, you work from BMEssentia's sample hospital documents instead, and observed sign-offs become self-assessed with evidence.

A branch is a short focus within the Ready Technician track, sold on its own as a Deep Dive and in the Full family: the same shift structure, built on the core's competencies, with the device families and cases of one area of work.

Which level should I choose?

Easy, Medium or Hard. A short baseline check on day one places you, or you can choose. Easy starts with worked examples and the simulation coach; Hard is independent, interleaved and timed. The same competencies are assessed at every level.

What do I get at the end?

The BMEssentia Certificate of Completion: Ready Technician, Renal and Dialysis, naming the track and the level you completed, and a portfolio of the real work documents you made along the way.

How much time does it take?

6 weeks, 3-5 hours a week, in items of a few minutes to about half an hour. Lessons, illustrations, checks and studios on a phone; simulations and the Device Lab best on a laptop.

Which languages is it in?

Essentia answers and explains in English, Arabic and Chinese. The course lessons and the Device Lab are in English, and every track page is also in Arabic.

Ready TechnicianRenal / Dialysis

Branch · The Dialysis Unit

Ready Technician:Renal / Dialysis

Haemodialysis machines, water treatment and peritoneal dialysis.

For: Hospitals and dialysis providers that need technicians for haemodialysis machines, water treatment and home therapies.

Before you start: Ready Technician (core) completed or in progress: this branch assumes the core's competencies and builds the Renal and Dialysis specialism on them.

Start free: week 1 of a track Book a demo for your team

Your mentor, a character in the trackDr Amira HaddadHead of Clinical Engineering

Length: 6 weeks
Time: 3-5 hours a week
Levels: Easy, Medium, Hard
Certificate: Certificate of Completion
On your own: $199, 12 months

Ready Technician: Renal / Dialysis: Device Lab 22, haemodialysis — Device Lab 22 · haemodialysis

The arc · 6 weeks · The Dialysis Unit

What you'll be able to do

The job, done properly.

Verifies haemodialysis machines against the PM limits with independent meters
Diagnoses barrier alarms to cause and never bypasses them
Supports the water plant and its tests
Controls concentrate and disinfection release
Commissions home PD cyclers

The story

BMEssentia Medical City Hospital, the Haemodialysis Unit (L1), its water plant and Home Therapies Training.

Dr Amira HaddadHead of Clinical Engineering · your mentor (a character in the track)

“A dialysis machine returns to treatment on a test result, not on a completed cycle. That sentence has saved patients.”

Inside the track

What you actually use, every week.

The real screens: My track, a step with your mentor, a simulation, your skills map and the certificate.

**A step with your mentor in the Device Lab**The step names what to look at on the real device, with hints that never give the answer away.Shown: Haemodialysis Machine with Dr Amira Haddad, this track's mentor

**A simulation**Real hospital work in Medical City, scored and debriefed, at your level.

**Your skills map**This track's own competencies, from your baseline to mastery. They move only on evidence.Shown: a sample learner's progress

**The certificate**A Certificate of Completion in the track's colours, with the work behind it.Shown: a sample for Mariam Al-Sayed, a fictional learner

The arc

6 weeks, one running case.

Each week is one working shift: learn, see inside, do, work, think, check, reflect. Open a week to see its real steps.

Your job cards, one a week

Week 1The haemodialysis machine: hydraulics, conductivity, temperature and UFDialysis machine PM checklist with limits
Week 2The barriers: air, clamp, blood leak and pressuresBarrier alarm investigation note
Week 3Water: the RO plant, carbon and the ring mainDialysis water daily check record
Week 4Concentrate, conductivity and disinfectionReturn-to-treatment procedure after disinfection
Week 5Peritoneal dialysis and home therapiesHome PD installation record
Week 6Boss week: Dialysis DayDialysis unit handover

Week 1The haemodialysis machine: hydraulics, conductivity, temperature and UF5.2 h
Four machines due PPM before the Tuesday sessions.
- DoPreventive Maintenance simulation: Dialysis unit, water and electrical25 min
- See insideGuided learning, day 1: Hemodialysis, checkpoints 1-18 of 6720 min
- WorkMaintenance studio: dialysis machine PM checklist15 min
- LearnTherapeutic Medical Devices ch. 5, lesson 4: How the Haemodialysis Machine Works15 min
- + 14 more steps
You make: Dialysis machine PM checklist with limits
Week 2The barriers: air, clamp, blood leak and pressures2.8 h
Air alarms nobody believes.
- DoClinical Engineer simulation: Dialysis Day (barrier jobs)25 min
- WorkFault studio: the air alarm nobody believes15 min
- LearnDevice Library, Haemodialysis: Safety, 'Human factors, and the alarms nobody believes'10 min
- ThinkIEC 60601-2-16: haemodialysis equipment10 min
- + 7 more steps
You make: Barrier alarm investigation note
Week 3Water: the RO plant, carbon and the ring main3 h
Low tide at three: the ring main sags every afternoon.
- DoTech Detective: Low Tide at Three25 min
- WorkDocument studio: daily water check record15 min
- LearnDevice Library, Haemodialysis: Safety, 'The water system, as a safety system'10 min
- ThinkISO 23500: water and fluids for haemodialysis10 min
- + 8 more steps
You make: Dialysis water daily check record
Week 4Concentrate, conductivity and disinfection2.3 h
Every Tuesday, and the rinse that was cut short.
- DoTech Detective: Every Tuesday25 min
- WorkProcedure studio: return to treatment after disinfection15 min
- LearnTherapeutic Medical Devices ch. 5, lesson 7: Complications and Risks of Haemodialysis15 min
- ThinkDevice Intelligence: Haemodialysis (proportioning and conductivity)10 min
- + 5 more steps
You make: Return-to-treatment procedure after disinfection
Week 5Peritoneal dialysis and home therapies4.8 h
Home Therapies: six cyclers going home.
- DoCommissioning simulation: Home APD cyclers25 min
- See insideGuided learning, day 1: Automated peritoneal dialysis, checkpoints 1-17 of 6620 min
- WorkProcedure studio: home cycler installation15 min
- LearnProsthetic Devices ch. 6, lesson 3: Components of Peritoneal Dialysis Equipment15 min
- + 12 more steps
You make: Home PD installation record
Week 6Boss week: Dialysis Day3.3 h
Dialysis Day.
- DoClinical Engineer simulation: Dialysis Day (all seven jobs)40 min
- WorkDocument studio: dialysis handover15 min
- CheckCheck: interleaved renal10 min
- ReflectObserved: a dialysis machine PPM and release45 min
- + 4 more steps
You make: Dialysis unit handover

Proof

Only evidence counts.

A step is done when there is evidence: a simulation score, a saved work document, a passed check or a signed observation. Opening a page never ticks anything.

Before and afterThe same baseline check on day one and in the final week, scored per competency.
Mastery, not attendanceBelow-threshold competencies route to their named remediation and a re-check.
The audit packYour weekly work documents and capstones, ready for a supervisor, an employer or an inspector.

The certificate

BMEssentia Certificate of Completion: Ready Technician, Renal and Dialysis

It names the track and the level you completed. Your portfolio holds the work behind it.

All weeks' required items done
Final check at or above the level's pass mark
At least 6 of 8 branch competencies at mastery
Capstone graded 60 or above (core tracks) or every branch device signed off (clinical branches)
Institutions: supervisor or educator sign-off; individuals: self-assessed with evidence, shown as such

The dialysis unit readiness pack

Take your unit's machines through PPM with independent meters, verify every barrier as a function, document the disinfection-release process and its evidence for a month.

Evidence it gives: Dialysis equipment PPM, barrier tests and release evidence.

Dialysis water: a month of evidence

Own the water plant's evidence for a month: daily tests, trends, alarms, capacity at peak, and a review with the renal lead.

Evidence it gives: Water treatment monitoring evidence (ISO 23500).

Home therapy installation standard

Write and use your hospital's home cycler installation and support standard on at least two installations.

Evidence it gives: Home dialysis equipment installation records.

Three levels

Easy, Medium or Hard.

A baseline check on day one places you, or you choose. The competencies are the same at every level; the support and the pressure change.

Easy

Baseline under 50% · simulations at Foundation

Worked examples first, then guided practice. Simulations at Foundation difficulty with the coach on and marking as you go. Fewer cases per week (the extra and hard-only cases are hidden). Mastery thresholds 10 points lower.

Medium

Baseline 50% to 74% · simulations at Practitioner

Guided to independent: the standard track. Simulations at Practitioner difficulty, the coach hidden but available, the extra cases each week from the middle of the track, mastery thresholds as stated.

Hard

Baseline 75% and above · simulations at Expert

Independent and interleaved: every simulation at Expert difficulty, all extra and hard-only cases, stricter mastery thresholds (+5), and time pressure.

Ways to get this track

On your own, with a plan, or with your organisation.

Deep Dive

This Deep Dive

$199for 12 months

The track's lessons, labs and Medical City scenarios
The certificate when you finish
The track mentor: 100 questions for the track, more with credit top-ups
Or the Ready Technician Full family: $899

General Essentia, the Studios and Design are not included. Subscribe within 30 days and what you paid counts toward your plan.

Start free: week 1 of a track

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FAQ

Answers before you start.

Anything else, write to the team and we answer directly.

Yes. An organisation's licence includes every track, core and branch, with the Platform, Medical City, Essentia, the App and the dashboard. Your organisation enrols you on the track, and it appears under My track; there is nothing extra to buy.
Yes, as a Deep Dive for $199 one-time, or in the Ready Technician Full family for $899. One payment opens it for 12 months under My track: the track's lessons, labs, Medical City scenarios, the certificate and the track mentor (100 questions per track, more with credit top-ups). General Essentia, the Studios and Design are not included. Where a week asks for your organisation's own documents, you work from BMEssentia's sample hospital documents instead, and observed sign-offs become self-assessed with evidence.

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