Interviewing
An opportunity has arisen for final year trainees to help out with CMT interviews. (Translation -Help! We don’t have enough consultants!). Full text below.
Peninsular GIM
Peninsular trainees finally have a chance to blow away our non-Renal GIM colleagues in public. GIM training days will now include four 10 minute presentations by trainees with the winner being decided by some manner of public vote. Good luck. Peninsular GIM
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.
SpR Club
Sheffield. 28th Feb to 1st March. Shabbir Moochala’s biannual address follows.
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…