Name:	Tammie Davis
Title:	Program Administrator, UBC Division of Nephrology
E-mail:	Tammie.davis@vch.ca
Phone:	(604) 875-5909

The eligibility criteria for all positions at the University of British Columbia are as follows:

1. Canadians or Permanent Residents who are currently in their R3 year of training in a Canadian University Internal Medicine Core Program.
   
   
2. Canadians or Permanent Residents who are graduates of a Canadian medical School who are currently in their R3 year of training in an accredited US ACGME accredited Internal Medicine Core Program.
   
   
3. VISA Sponsored residents are NOT eligible.
   
   
4. Current R4 and residents in a GIM program are NOT eligible.
   
   
5. Off-Cycle Applicants – Residents commencing their R3 year after December 31, 2009 are NOT eligible to apply

Document	Mandatory	Optional
Reference letter Number of letters: 3	X
Personal letter Outlining interest in program.	X
Curriculum Vitae	X

Applications submitted after the file review has opened on August 24, 2011 :

- will be considered

References and other supporting documents which arrive after the file review has opened on August 24, 2011

- will be considered

We will be accepting applications up until September 24, 2011

Date(s) of Interview :
Invitation/ Notification Information: Applicants selected for interviews will be notified by email.

Details regarding Interview:

The University Of British Columbia Division Of Nephrology offers a 2 year residency in Nephrology which is accredited by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Applicants must have completed a three year residency in internal medicine.

The program is based in Vancouver at Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) and St Paul’s Hospital. Each hospital provides the full range of nephrology services, including general nephrology clinics, chronic kidney disease clinics, hemodialysis (both outpatient and in-centre nocturnal), peritoneal dialysis, transplantation and in-patient nephrology. Between them, the two hospitals provide tertiary and quaternary referral services for the Province, with a population of approximately 4 million people, and VGH is one of the largest hospitals in Canada with approximately 600 acute care beds. St Paul’s hospital includes a small maternity ward offering some opportunity for exposure to complications of pregnancy, while VGH operates a busy burns and trauma service and neurosurgery, and both hospitals provide most other specialty medical and surgical services and critical care. The renal services at VGH also include a large home hemodialysis program.

The Division of Nephrology currently has 20 full time and 2 part time Nephrologists working at the two main sites. The residents have an office at each hospital with computers and internet access. Internet resources including UpToDate are offered by the hospitals. Nephrology residents do call from home one weekend per month and one night per week, and there are presently internal medicine residents in-house at both sites every night cross covering medical subspecialties.

The Division also offers clinical fellowships in hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis and home hemodialysis depending upon funding, and there is an AST accredited transplant fellowship with 1 or 2 positions per year. Trainees are also encouraged to pursue additional research training through programs such as KRESCENT and the Clinician Investigator Program.

Formal academic programs include an academic half day on Monday afternoons, at least one noon journal club/teaching session per week, monthly or biweekly Grand Rounds with visiting speakers or local faculty presenting, and a formal pathology curriculum of monthly sessions which repeats annually. Residents present at evening journal clubs approximately every 2 months.

Residents are assigned a faculty supervisor for their once a week longitudinal clinic, which starts in the third month and is protected time away from clinical rotations.

Trainees will be required to attend the CSN annual meeting and funding is available for this. Attendance at other national and international conferences is encouraged, and funding is guaranteed if the resident is presenting original research. Five week days of conference leave per year is permitted, not including time spent presenting one’s own research.

First year: 13 blocks of 4 weeks each, consisting of 4 blocks of consults (2 VGH, 2 SPH), 3 hemodialysis (divided between sites), 2 transplantation (1 at each), 1 peritoneal dialysis (SPH), 1 peritoneal and home hemodialysis (VGH), 2 ward (1 at each site).

Second year: 2 blocks of consults, 1 transplantation, 1 peritoneal/home hemodialysis, 1 hemodialysis, 1 CKD clinics, 7 blocks of elective time.

Electives are typically spent in pathology, dialysis access (insertion of peritoneal dialysis catheters, tunneled and temporary hemodialysis catheters, and vascular access clinics), maternal/fetal medicine (at BC Women’s hospital), community nephrology, critical care, and pediatric nephrology (at BC Children’s Hospital). Out of town electives (up to 3 blocks) are also permitted to increase exposure to specific areas such as glomerular diseases or to complete research projects. Trainees are encouraged to devise a plan for their second year and are given considerable latitude in terms of elective planning to complete a research project or pursue specific clinical interests.

The Division of Nephrology is currently developing a website which will outline the research and clinical interests of the members, and is expected to be operational by September 2011.

Clinical rotations are divided equally between the two training sites, St Paul’s Hospital and Vancouver General Hospital, both located in the city of Vancouver and approximately 3 km apart. Selectives may be taken anywhere, although at least 3 months should be spent in the Vancouver area. The most common sites for selectives in the past have been Royal Columbian Hospital, Surrey Memorial Hospital, and B.C. Children’s and Women’s hospital.