Essential Courses
- Advanced Life Support course
- UK Kidney Week meeting
- Renal SpR club meeting
- UKKA Advanced Nephrology course
- UCL Applied Renal Physiology course
- UCL Renal Dialysis course
- Imperial College Renal Pathology for the Nephrologist
- PD Academy meeting
- One/two-day Management course
- One-day research skills / GCP course (if no period of OOPR)
Desirable Courses
- ERA/EDTA congress
- American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Kidney Week
- British Transplantation Society (BTS) annual congress
- European Society of Organ Transplantation (ESOT) congress
- One/two-day Teaching course
None of the above courses/conferences are essential on an annual basis.
UK based programmes offer similar content to international conferences and should be selected over and above the international ones (they also offer useful networking opportunities unlike international conferences).
Trainees can be funded to attend one of each of the above throughout their whole training
programme.
Permission for attendance at all international events must be sought from the TPD.