Dr Jeremy Levy Applications are invited for places on a one year full-time course in Nephrology leading to the MSc in Renal Medicine of the University of London. The course provides intensive training for both established and trainee nephrologists, or for general physicians who wish to make nephrology a special interest. The MSc in Renal Medicine covers both theoretical and practical aspects of nephrology, dialysis and transplantation, including diagnosis and management of all types of renal disease. Teaching is based on frequent and regular small group seminars, tutorials, bedside teaching, ward rounds and an extensive lecture series with daily lectures from an experienced faculty, which includes many international experts.
Students also complete a supervised original research project.
During their clinical attachment, students rotate through general nephrology and acute renal failure, maintenance dialysis, and renal transplantation. They participate in ward rounds, outpatient clinics, dedicated teaching rounds, pathology and radiology meetings, and will observe practical procedures such as renal biopsy, haemodialysis and haemofiltration, peritoneal dialysis, plasma exchange, vascular access and transplantation. Students will be exposed to the full spectrum of renal disease, including the management of nephrological complications of bone marrow transplantation and cardiothoracic surgery, renal disease in pregnancy, and renal failure in intensive care. They will also complete a 3 month project which can be either laboratory-based or clinical, and which will involve original research under close supervision. The Hammersmith Hospital Renal Unit has an international reputation in the investigation and management of immune-mediated renal disease, especially vasculitis and Goodpasture's disease, and in transplantation.