SpR Club
Sheffield. 28th Feb to 1st March. Shabbir Moochala’s biannual address follows.
2008
Various Schools of Medicine
Attention Severn trainees. There is a website for us here which will in the future replace and surpass the many features of SWRenal. For the time being it has a very fetching photo of Chris Dudley. No renal site yet in the Peninsular, but there is a medical bit here.
Exit Exam Latest
More hot-off-the-press Knowledge Based Assessment news from PMETB follows…
SpR Club
Clare Parker is our new Wales and South West SpR club rep, and she tells me that the next meeting is over the weekend 28th Feb – 1st March. It’s in Sheffield. It will be great. Final venue and programme to follow.
Ways to access SWRenal
David Warland reminded me that there are a number of ways to access material on SWRenal; here is a quick rundown for any newcomers. Read the site at http://swrenal.org.uk. Just like you are right now. Subscribe to the RSS feed, possibly using one of these fine tools. Follow the Twitter feed. If you’re super keen and want to update the site with news from your unit or any other vaguely renal information let me know…
2009 Training
The 2009 training programme is now live. Anyone unhappy with their allocation should contact Chris Dudley. As you can see Paul Murray has no commitments for the second year in a row.
Workforce Planning
There is a draft workforce planning document available here (via the Renal Association website), covering what to do with the projected excess of trained nephrologists up to 2015 and ways of delivering the service with fewer trainees thereafter. Have a look and feed back to the committee members.
Knowledge Based Assessment
Those of you not on the PTB mailing list might have missed out on this message regarding the exit exam Knowledge Based Assessment for post – August 2007 ST trainees. Here it is below.
South West Renal Meeting
The next North Petherton meeting is on Wednesday 26th November. Please let Dr Jo Taylor know if you plan to attend the post-education dinner.
Interview Skills at Swansea Training Day
Are you coming to the 16th October training day? Is your CCT date closer than you’d like? Would you like to get the only consultant job coming up in the region between now and 2017? Do you have an unhealthy interest in neurolinguistic programming? Then email Ashraf Mikhail to volunteer for a mock interview.