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Intensive Care Medicine

This is a ‘Key Unit of Training’. “Step 1” (previously Intermediate) Training in ICM requires 6 months of training within the specialty. All trainees in anaesthesia must receive a minimum of three months training in ICM during years SpR 1 and 2. This requirement is based on the recognition that knowledge and skills gained in critical care underpin the trainees’ ability to gain competency in aspects of anaesthesia later in their training. The training should be to the IBTICM's standards for Step 1 Training, with the exception that the Board's requirement that SpR training must be in three-month blocks does not apply to training intended solely for a CCT in anaesthesia. The College does not prescribe the minimum duration of ICM training blocks within the anaesthesia CCT programme, although longer rather than shorter periods are preferred. The second 3 months training in ICM would normally be obtained in year 3. However, provided other ‘units of training’ in the SpR 1/2 period are not compromised, this second period can also be completed during this time. It is expected, however, that this will be the exception rather than the rule…