Sholpan Sadykova
Country: Kazakhstan
Region: Newly Independent States and Russia
How did the ISN's support enable you to advance kidney health in your home country?
ISN gave me the opportunity to immerse myself into the highly professional atmosphere. As a result, I have a detailed understanding of interventional nephrology. Undoubtedly, the benefit is that I can share all the knowledge and guidelines involved in improving safety that I have gained with my students, colleagues. Most of all, I am happy that I had the opportunity to train on simulators under the supervision of UK mentors who kindly answered any questions and showed the technique step-by-step. We built warm relationships with nephrologists of St. Helier and agreed on further cooperation.This internship inspired me a lot. My goals include gathering a group of enthusiasts, who are passionate about interventional procedures and creating a society of interventional nephrologists. The next step is to find funding and purchase simulators. I believe that one day our nephrologists will perform the procedures themselves.
