Overview
A Royal College-accredited subspecialty programme at SickKids offering exposure to the full spectrum of renal disease in children, including dialysis and transplantation, with optional one-year subspecialty programmes.
The programme
- Training type
- Clinical Fellowship
- Duration
- 2 years (core); one-year subspecialty programmes in transplantation, dialysis & apheresis, nephrogenetics, complement-mediated diseases
- Start
- 1 July
- Positions
- Not stated on official page
- Accreditation
- Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
- Department
- Division of Nephrology
Eligibility and visa
- Eligibility
- TOEFL 615 / IELTS 7.0 minimum recommended
- International applicants
- Institution policyYes - international applicants who meet CPSO clinical-fellow licensure requirements contact the Fellowship Program Director; applicants from countries with training agreements apply via their sponsoring agency to the PGME Office
- Visa support
- Institution policyinternational clinical fellows need an IRCC work permit; the PGME Office issues an LMIA-exempt offer of employment number and supports the work permit application
- Licence requirement
- Institution policyclinical fellows must hold a CPSO certificate of registration authorising postgraduate education (educational licence); research fellows do not need CPSO registration
How to apply
- Deadline
- Application portal opens early November; deadline mid-January of the year preceding the start
- Application method
- Email nephrology.trainingprogram@sickkids.ca to join distribution list; online portal
Funding
- Funding
- Some subspecialty programmes funded applicants only; transplant and complement programmes have funding competitions
Official sources
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