Attention Transplanters
The European Society for Organ Transplantation has a couple of courses coming up, some of which involve exotic travel, most of which don’t (no offence, Edinburgh). ESOT European Transplant Fellow Workshop Hesperis course
Training
Educational Opportunity Update
Green Nephrology Fellowship (more) MRHA Doctors In Training conference (more) BAMMbino nightschool – “From Doctor to Chief Exec” (more)
GIM and ST Trainees
There follows below an acronym-and-buzzword-heavy statement from a variety of august bodies on GIM training for ST trainees. Basically you will be able to dual accredit if you want to.
More SCE news
A group of enterprising SpRs from somewhere in the “North” are organising a course for the new exam. It might be good. It is certainly reasonably priced. MRCPNeph
CMO’s Clinical Advisors Scheme
Are you a trainee? Do you dream of running some or all of the NHS when you grow up? If so have a look at this training opportunity presented to us by the Chief Medical Officer. CMO Advisor
Specialty Certificate Examination
The newly minted Exit Exam Knowledge Based Assessment Specialty Certificate Examination (SCE) is now open for applications until 23rd Feb 2009. There’s more info about the application process at the MRCP website. Here is a copy of the curriculum. SCE Curriculum There still seems to be a fair abount of FUD circulating about whether SpRs expecting to finish alongside the ST trainees will be disadvantaged if they don’t have the exam. Any thoughts? Post away below…
ePortfolio
As you can tell from the lower-case e in the title of this post, our trainers are not afraid of using 21st century asssessment methods. If you are an ST trainee with a dislike of paper then email Severn Deanery tech whizzkid Matthew Hill (Matthew.Hill@southwest.nhs.uk) with the following information: Name GMC Number Level of Study Email address Hospital/Trust Specialty and he will sort you out with an ePortfolio. Old-school SpRs need not apply at the present time.
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…
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.