Guy's

The Department of Nephrology and Transplantation lies within the Division of Immunology, Infection, and Inflammatory Diseases of GKT School of Medicine and provides a world-class centre for research into renal medicine and transplantation. There is an active research programme in place supported by local charities and national funding bodies and you will be encouraged to contribute to this programme. The GKT School of Medicine is one of the largest UK medical schools, with over 700 staff and 2500 undergraduate and postgraduate students. Undergraduate teaching is one of the core activities of the unit and you will be expected to participate in this.

You will join a team of NHS and academic consultants, six clinical renal specialist registrars (and two research SpRs) and eight renal senior house officers providing care for a renal replacement therapy programme of over 1200 patients. The Renal Unit forms a hub to an extensive network of satellite units, providing outreach dialysis and outpatient services covering southeast London. This includes satellite dialysis centres and/or clinics in Lewisham, Sidcup, Tunbridge Wells (Pembury), Camberwell, Forest Hill and New Cross Gate. The unit has one of the biggest and busiest kidney and kidney-pancreas transplant programmes in the UK, and provides transplant services across the UK and Channel Islands. The inpatient facility based on the Guy’s site includes three wards, a day case unit, designated theatre space, and access to on-site critical care and laboratory facilities that support the renal programme.  The renal unit also incorporates new office facilities and seminar rooms, an in-house library and research laboratories.

During your time at Guy’s you will gain comprehensive clinical experience in all aspects of nephrology, including general nephrology, pre-dialysis assessment, transplantation and dialysis. You will also have the opportunity to attend specialist clinics (pre-pregnancy counselling, cystinosis, von Hippel Lindau). You will be trained in line insertion and native and transplant biopsies.