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).
The next Peninsula GIM training day programme has been released, and includes a talk on “Renovascular Disease” by Richard D’Souza. Exeter GIM
Peninsula based dual accreditees – Dr Jon Goodman, head of the Postgrad School of Medicine, has a message for you about GIM training day attendance.
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.
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
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.
