Training - Training program

The training requirements of the CICM training program in General Intensive Care includes 12 months General Hospital Experience post graduation plus 36 months of basic training and 36 months of advanced training.

The Basic and Advanced training program in intensive care must include:

• 24 months training in intensive care in units approved by the Board for core training which must be undertaken during advanced training.  One core year of intensive care training must be continuous.  The second core year of intensive care training may be spent discontinuously in two periods of six months each. At least 12 months must be undertaken in a unit or units accredited as C24, and only one rotation to a unit classified as C6 is permitted without prior approval of the Censor.  In-Training Assessments for this period of training are required.  At least 6 months of intensive care training must be undertaken as a Senior Registrar.
   
• 12 months  approved clinical internal medicine post, at least 6 months of which must be undertaken as a Registrar.
   
• 12 months exclusively in clinical anaesthesia, not necessarily continuous.
   
• 24 months in any combination of General Medicine, Specialist Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Surgery, Research, Intensive Care, Clinical Anaesthesia, other disciplines related to intensive care.
   
• Success at the CICM Primary Examination, or a Primary Examination approved by the College. An approved Part I or Primary Examination must be successfully undertaken prior to the commencement of advanced training.
   
• Success at the College's Fellowship Examination in intensive care
   
• Successful completion of a Formal Project
   
• Successful completion of a Medical ADAPT Workshop

Please note exemptions from the CICM Primary examination are not guaranteed and in most cases unlikely. A possible exemption is dependent on where your qualification/training occurred in conjuction with your overall experience. All decisions are individually based and the Censor will make a decision based on a combination of your qualification, previous training and experience. It is therefore important to provide us with us much information about your past as possible. The best way to do this is to fill in the registration form and send it in to us with the relevant documentation.

The CICM Fellowship Examination may be undertaken following the successful completion of at least 12 months of Advanced Core Intensive Care training.  This Examination is conducted twice a year, with the written sections held in any capital city in Australia, and some cities in New Zealand and Hong Kong.  The oral/clinical sections of the Examination are held alternatively in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney.

Please note that, in order for Advanced training to be recognised, trainees must register within three months of commencing in an approved post. 

A separate endorsement is available in Paediatric Intensive Care, based on the above training program.

For further information, please contact the Training Department.