Aims:
- Establishment of practice standards and tiers of training
- Advise on curriculum development to promote these standards
- Develop appropriate training courses with various collaborators including hospitals, postgraduate centres and universities as appropriate
- Encouraging interventional nephrology symposia and training courses
- Review new courses and ensure they align with interventional nephrology training
- Promote research and the development of evidence in interventional nephrology
- Dissemination of information regarding interventional nephrology
- Signpost multiprofessional trainees in interventional nephrology
- Service review of interventional nephrology departments and pathways
Chair: Saeed Ahmed (Consultant Nephrologist)
Workstreams:
- Annual UK-DIN course
- PG Cert interventional nephrology
- Procedural guidelines
- Scoping training for interventional nephrology
Significant outputs:
- UK-DIN course delivered since 2022
- Taster weeks delivered
- Hong Kong interventional nephrology annual training delivered February 2024
- ANNUK meeting training delivered April 2024
- Advanced Nephrology Course training delivered April 2024
- VASBI Pocus Workshops delivered in 2023 and 2024
- Annual Dialysis Conference Pocus workshop in 2023
- ISN Education ambassador program training delivered and published in ISN magazine April 2024
- PG Cert interventional nephrology developed and up and running with the first cohort of students completing their first year