The first students have graduated from a unique medical course designed for specialised kidney care.<\/p>\n
Five higher speciality trainees in kidney medicine graduated from the two year course taught at the renal unit at Sunderland Royal Hospital.<\/p>\n
The course develops doctors’ skills in interventional nephrology, an area of care that deals with procedures related to dialysis and investigations in kidney medicine, such as ultrasound and kidney biopsies.<\/p>\n
It was developed by South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust (STSFT) and Newcastle University and saw students travel from across the country to take part.<\/p>\n
Dr Shalabh Srivastava, one of the nephrology experts behind the course, said he hoped thanks to the training kidney care would improve across the country.<\/p>\n
“It is a great sense of achievement to see this cohort through as there is no equivalent programme anywhere in the world,” he said.<\/p>\n
Professor Paul Paes, head of school of medicine at Newcastle University, said seeing the first graduates was “an exciting moment”.<\/p>\n
“Newcastle University and STSFT have been working in partnership for a long time to train the region’s doctors.<\/p>\n
“This is a further step in that partnership to improve an area of specialist care that will make an impact locally, nationally and internationally.”<\/p>\n
STSFT said it had recruited a further two intakes of 10 students to the course.<\/p>\n
They include two students who have moved to the UK with their families for the training, one from Malaysia and the other from Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n
The trust said discussions were underway with healthcare organisations in Malaysia, India and Tanzania to build future links around the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first students have graduated from a unique medical course designed for specialised kidney care. Five higher speciality…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-257736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}