SW Renal

New Curriculum

jim — Fri, 21 May 2010 18:51:09 +0000

It’s a new decade, so there is a new curriculum for renal trainees. If you’re starting in 2010 of later, here’s what you are expected to cover…

Quick Start guide to the 2010 curriculum – Renal Medicine

Renal Curriculum 2010 (PDF)

Supportive Care Course

jim — Fri, 21 May 2010 18:47:14 +0000

There is a course available through the Hammersmith Hospital on supportive care. This was a hot topic at Renal PYAs last year and will be worth a look, study leave permitting.

Supportive Care Flyer (PDF)

South West Renal Physicians Meeting

jim — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:08:47 +0000

The next traditional North Petherton meeting will henceforth be a once-yearly event. The next one is on 1st July – if you’d like to present, email Jo Taylor.

Jim Says “Please Take Over This Website”

jim — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:53:39 +0000

I’m off to cure diabetes fairly soon, and I’m looking for someone to take on day-to-day website running duties. My “day-to-day”, I mean “once or twice a month”, and don’t worry, I’ll still be there to hold your hand through the geeky stuff. Interested? Email me.

I’m also looking to hand over the reins as Training Advisory Committee trainee rep. Two meetings a year. That’s all. Seriously. Again, email me if interested.

How To Pass You Annual Assessment (Part 2) – GIM

jim — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:45:41 +0000

JRCPTB have come off the fence and stated that “It was never the intention of the Board to mandate the use of wpba for SpRs although it was hoped that most would use them on a voluntary basis”. Thus pre-2007 trainees are not expected to produce bucketloads of GIM DOPS/CEX/ACAT paperwork at RITAs, although they can be used to support the usual methods of assessment (e.g. Supervisor’s reports).

News Roundup

jim — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:31:37 +0000

More SCE questions online here (PDF link)

BTS registration

Renal Pathology course

Baxter-sponsored PD education day in Exeter on 2nd June – email Richard D’Souza to confirm attendance

Training 2010

jim — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:26:50 +0000

They’re out… Training dates for Renal (for all of us) and GIM (for those of us in the general Severn vicinity).

Renal 2010

GIM 2010

Renal

Wednesday 3 February Cardiff
CAPD – What does a PD service need? Dr K Donovan
Journal Club C Alejmi
Audit A. Singh
Infection control: DoH Guidelines on management of viruses in dialysis patients Vik Lodhi
CPC Ben Thomas

Thursday 18 March Gloucester
Acute Kidney Injury – Risks, stratification and treatment Gloucester Consultants
Journal Club Paul Murray
Case presentation Dr Kamaraj
Renovascular disease- Current evidence for treatment R. Clisshold
CPC P.Kwanekar

Tuesday 18 May Bristol
Transplantation – Immunosuppression in 2010 Bristol Consultants
Journal Club V Dibbur
Audit D.Whitehead
IgA Nephropathy – Pathogenesis, prognosis and treatment A Williams
CPC N.Raza

Wednesday 7 July Swansea
Conservative care for CKD stage 5 – What does it mean and who is it for. Dr Clare Parker Dr James Chess
Journal Club L.Ratcliffe
Case presentation Tarek Sobka
Haemodialysis – complications and there treatment K.Wallace
CPC R Ibakkanavar

Thursday 16 September Dorchester
Renal Stone Disease – What do nephrologists need to know? Dorchester Consultants
Journal Club J Milne
Audit P.Karanth
Inherited Renal Diseases Chris Carrington
CPC S.Soroush

Tuesday 23 November Exeter
Renal Bone Disease – Guidelines and treatment Exeter Consultants
Journal Club G.Bommayya
Case presentation C Alejmi
Urinary Tract obstruction and the neurogenic bladder J.Bushnell
CPC G Roberts

Severn GIM

Monday 15th February
Tuesday 20th April
Wednesday 23rd June
Friday 26th November Combined Royal College of Physicians Update/GIM Training Day
Friday 10th December

Venues TBA

How To Pass Your Annual Assessment (Part One)

jim — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:53:30 +0000

Those of us who have been though the ARCP/RITA process over that last few months will most likely be aware that the nature and number of assessments required has a tendency to change as time goes on, particularly for the GIM component.

Here is a form for ARCP assessments, making it pretty clear what is expected to be achieved for progression.

Although the RITA doesn’t follow the same format, one could expect to progress by ticking all the boxes in the ARCP form.

I’m still unclear on what exactly is expected from GIM assessment for both old-style SpRs and STs transitioning to the new curriculum. Thankfully I don’t appear to be the only one. An update (imaginatively titled “How To Pass Your Annual Assessment Part Two”) will follow once I clear that up,

Jim

Exeter Training, 24th November

jim — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:55:20 +0000

The Exeter training day is quite rightly famed for its high quality education and external caterers. Click through for the programme.

Renal SpR Regional Teaching Day 24th November 2009

Renal Disease Meeting

jim — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:55:18 +0000

There is a joint medical-surgical-radiology meeting focusing on renal disease coming up on 11th November, hosted at a motorway-friendly location near Bristol, and priced extremely reasonably. See the flyer for details.

NBT Renal meeting flyer 11 Nov 2009