Specialist High Level Requirements

Specialist high-level requirements are any education, performance review or measuring outcomes activities that must be included in a specialist’s CPD program. The Medical Board of Australia approves and publishes high-level requirements for specialists registered in Board-recognised specialties and fields of specialty practice.

All CICM Fellows including Dual Fellows, must include the relevant high-level requirements mandated by the college(s) of their registered speciality in their annual CPD program, regardless of the CPD home chosen.

From January 2025 Airway Management will be a Specialist High Level Requirement (SHLR) for all CICM fellows, to be completed once every three years.

The first three-year cycle within which the requirement must be completed is 2025 - 2027.

If you become a new fellow of the College within any three year cycle you are exempt from the SHLR until the following triennium.

Once every three years, it will be a requirement to complete a CICM - approved airway management course that involves:

An in-person practical workshop
Both a preparatory and post activity component
Simulation activities that involve performing intubation on appropriate mannequins to expose participants to difficult airway scenarios and include team-based responses
Participation of a minimum of 3 hours, including preparatory, in person and post activity
Aspects of airway management of critically ill patients that specifically consider:
- Airways assessment
- Approaches to difficult airway and airway emergencies
- Teamwork and leadership in an airway crisis
- Familiarity with equipment
- CICO algorithms (can’t intubate, can’t oxygenate)
- Management of tracheostomy emergencies

Current CICM-approved SHLR activities

Activity	Provider	Location	Information
360AIRS: Full Circle Advanced Intubation & Rescue Skills Geelong	CCAM	Geelong	Email Department
APICS Airway Management Workshop	Changi Hospital Singapore	Singapore	Email Department
ASM ICU Update - Airway Management Workshops	CICM	Hobart	Email CPD Department
Beyond BASIC Airway Management	Royal Perth Hospital	Perth	Email Department
Beyond BASIC Airway Management	CICM	Frankston VIC	Email Department
Caboolture ICU Airway Course (CIAC)	Queensland Health	Caboolture QLD	Email Department
Cadaveric Airway Management Course	Airway Courses Australia	Brisbane, Sydney	Click here
Canberra Airway Course	Canberra Hospital	Canberra	Email Department
CICM CPD Airway Management	Monash Simulation Centre	Melbourne	Email Department
Critically Ill Airway (CIA) Course	Alfred Intensive Care Academic Centre	Melbourne	Click here
Critical Care Airway Management (CCAM)	Critical Care Education Trust	Sydney, NSW	Click here
Critical Care Airway Management (CCAM) Essentials	Critical Care Education Trust	Sydney, NSW	Click here
Current Concepts in Critical Care	Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital	Brisbane	Click here
Difficult & Advanced Airway Management	Wellington ICU	Wellington, NZ	Email Department
Difficult Airway Workshop (part of Update in Paeds Emergencies)	Colloquium Conferences	Noosa	Click here
Difficult Airway Workshop	Colloquium Conferences	Sydney	Email Department
Effective Management of Anaesthesia Crises (EMAC) & Can’t Intubate Can’t Oxygenate (CICO) Activity	Clinical Skills Development Service and Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital	Brisbane	Email Department
EMICC Airway	The Royal Melbourne Hospital	Melbourne	Email Department
Gold Coast Airway Skills & Procedures	GCU Hospital & Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital ICU	Gold Coast	Click here
Logan Airway Management Course (LAMC)	Logan Hospital Intensive Care Unit and Anaesthetic Department	Logan, QLD	Email Department
MAC4Intensivists (Monash Airway Course 4 Intensivists)	Monash Simulation Centre	Melbourne	Email Department
Paediatrics Advanced Airway course (PAC)	Monash Children's Hospital	Melbourne	Click here
Princess Alexandra ICU Airway Course	Princess Alexandra Department of Intensive Care Medicine	Brisbane	Email Department
Regional Specialist Airway Management Course	Bendigo Health	Bendigo	Email Department
Safe Airway Society - Airway Workshop	Safe Airway Society (SAS)	Various locations in Australia and New Zealand	Click here
Specialist High Level Requirement - Airway Management	Christchurch Intensive Care Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora - Waitaha Canterbury	Christchurch NZ	Email Department
Townsville University Hospital ICU Airway Workshop	Townsville University Hospital	Townsville	Email Department
Westmead Beyond Basic Airway Course	Westmead Public Hospital	Sydney	Email Department
Westmead Beyond Basic Airway Course - Instructor course	Westmead Public Hospital	Sydney	Email Department

CPD Activity Providers

Important: this information relates only to the CPD specialist high-level requirement for Airway Management. For information and to submit an application for accredited face-to-face Training curriculum courses, please see: Face to Face Courses

For providers seeking CICM approval for CPD Airway Management activities:

Detailed information on requirements can be found in the Airway Management Activity Guidelines. Please read this document before submitting your activity information for approval.
Click on the button below to submit the application form.

Click here for application form

Please note the approval process can take up to 6 weeks. Contact the CPD team at [email protected] or 03 9514 2888 if you need assistance or further information.

To record specialist high-level requirements undertaken, please visit the activities list in your CPD Diary and select the high-level requirement for your speciality or specialities. Alternatively, you can add the activity manually.

The MBA publishes an annual list of all specialist high-level requirements, here