Specialty specific changes for CESR in Renal Medicine
The Renal Medicine curriculum was published in March 2022. For a transition period you can make your CESR application against either the new curriculum or the previous version.
This option is available until the transition deadline of 31 October 2023.
Specialty specific guidance
We’ve produced guidance documents for each version of the curriculum with the Joint Royal Colleges of Physicians Training Board.
How to apply
You can apply through your GMC Online account. There is one application form which includes sections for both versions of the curricula. You should tell us which curriculum version you wish to be assessed against in sequence one. And only provide evidence in the sections of the application relevant to your curriculum.
2022 curriculum
Our standards for postgraduate medical curricula are Excellence by design and the framework for Generic professional capabilities. These help postgraduate medical training programmes focus trainee assessment away from an exhaustive list of individual competencies, towards fewer broad capabilities needed to practise safely from your first day as a consultant.
As a result, the 2022 physicianly curricula are outcomes based. This means trainees will be assessed against the fundamental capabilities required of consultants in the working week. These include the general skills which all doctors need to have as well as those needed to carry out all the specific day to day tasks undertaken by a consultant physician (Capabilities in Practice – CiPs).
In demonstrating these capabilities, a successful applicant will be awarded a dual CESR in Renal medicine and General internal medicine.
Content shared between all physicianly specialties
There are six CiPs which are shared between all physicianly specialties:
- CiP 1 - Able to function successfully within NHS organisational and management systems
- CiP 2 - Able to deal with ethical and legal issues related to clinical practice
- CiP 3 - Communicates effectively and is able to share decision making, while maintaining appropriate situational awareness, professional behaviour and professional judgement
- CiP 4 - Is focused on patient safety and delivers effective quality improvement in patient care
- CiP 5 - Carrying out research and managing data appropriately
- CiP 6 - Acting as a clinical teacher and clinical supervisor.
Clinical internal medicine content
- CiP 1 - Managing an acute unselected take
- CiP 2 - Managing the acute care of patients within a medical specialty service
- CiP 3 - Providing continuity of care to medical inpatients, including management of comorbidities and cognitive impairment
- CiP 4 - Managing patients in an outpatient clinic, ambulatory or community setting, including management of long-term conditions
- CiP 5 - Managing medical problems in patients in other specialties and special cases
- CiP 6 - Managing multidisciplinary team including effective discharge planning
- CiP 7 - Delivering effective resuscitation and managing the acutely deteriorating patient
- CiP 8 - Managing end of life and applying palliative care skills.
Specialty specific content
- CiP 1 - Running a renal ward
- CiP 2 - Managing a haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis programme
- CiP 3 - Running an acute renal referral service
- CiP 4 - Managing patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) stages 1-5
- CiP 5 - Understanding of subspecialty clinical services
- CiP 6 - Managing renal transplant patients.
Changes in assessment tools
There has been no change to the workplace based assessment methodology.
Changes in knowledge and skills
All JRCPTB specialties identified as group 1 will dual train in internal medicine (IM) and the IM learning outcomes have been embedded in the Renal Medicine curriculum. This curriculum will train doctors that are specialists with generalist skills to manage the acute unselected take and care of acutely ill patients.
