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Disclaimer

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.

A six year training program comprising three years of basic training and three years of advanced training, which must include:

• 36 months of intensive care training. 12 months may be undertaken in Basic Training in units approved for training. 24 months of core intensive care training must be undertaken in Advanced Training in an intensive care unit approved for core 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.  A maximum of 24 months of intensive care training, whether basic or core, can be completed in the same unit.

At the discretion of the Censor, trainees who are undertaking concurrent training with another College (ANZCA, ACEM and RACP) may have this period reduced to 30 months by fulfilling the following:

1. Completing all components of basic training of the second specialty as well as the first year of advanced  training, and;

2. Satisfactory completion of an introductory intensive care course, such as the BASIC course. The dates, registration and other details regarding the BASIC course can be obtained from their website at  http://www.aic.cuhk.edu.hk/web8/BASIC.htm

• 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 conjunction 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.

To discuss your training situation or to seek further advice on the possibility of an exemption, please contact the College Office on (03) 9514 2888.

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 parthway is available in Paediatric Intensive Care, based on the above training program.

For further information, please contact the Training Department.

Please note the above training program will only affect trainees who register with the College from 1st January 2011.  
The CICM previous regulation (regulation prior to 1^st January 2011) can be viewed in the Training Resources.