Information on training in East Anglia
Details on Units in the region
Advice for trainees
Recommended Training Programmes
(Basic, Intermediate
& Advanced)
Diploma in Intensive Care Medicine
Further information (answers to frequently
asked questions)
Regional Advisor in Intensive Care Medicine
Deputy Regional Advisor
Intensive Care Units With Provisional Recognition
for Training in ICM in the Anglia Deanery
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Educational Advisor |
| Addenbrooke's (John Farman Unit) |
Dr MJ Lindop |
| Addenbrooke's (Neurosurgical Critical
Care Unit) |
Dr A Gupta |
| Bedford |
Dr D Niblett |
| Ipswich |
Dr P Carroll |
| King's Lynn |
Dr MC Blunt |
| Norfolk & Norwich |
Dr S Fletcher |
| Peterborough |
Dr P Hunt |
| West Suffolk |
Dr A Burns |
General Information
- The Intercollegiate Board for Training in Intensive Care Medicine
with representatives from the Royal Colleges of Anaesthesia, Surgery
and Medicine and the Intensive Care Society is responsible for the establishment
of a recognised programme for training intensive care medicine (ICM)
in the United Kingdom.
- The European Specialist Medical Qualifications Amendment Regulation
1999 came into force on 7th June 1999. Intensive care medicine has now
been added to the list of "other" specialties in Part II of Schedule
2 and has specialty recognition.
- Doctors who wish to undertake a career in Intensive Care Medicine
must now follow the programmes which have been approved in structure
by the parent Colleges.
- It is likely that newly appointed consultants in ICM, who are either
Directors of Intensive Care or playing a major part in running an intensive
care unit, will in due course need a CCST in anaesthesia/ICM, general
internal medicine/ICM, or the surgical equivalent.
- Existing consultants will not be able to obtain a CCST in ICM and
will be exempt from this requirement when applying for consultant posts.
- The joint CCST is not going to be available for trainees already in
training programmes, or who are due to join programmes in the near future,
however it seems likely that the status of the CCST will be defined
more accurately in the next few weeks
- The exact roles of the IBTICM and the Colleges, especially the RCA,
is presently in a state of flux.
- The IBTICM is presently producing a Competancy
Document. This is presently in draft form and could change before
completion, however it is likely to form the basis for ICM training,
as it is only following acceptance of the Competancy document can the
STA give approval for the entry of trainees into training for a CCST.
It is certainly the most accurate and any discrepancy between information
within it and on this site is accidental.
Further information
- Medical complimentary training
- acute paediatrics: Training
in acute paediatrics cannot be accepted as providing the medical
training as laid down in the recommended programme.
- A&E medicine: Training in
A&E may now be counted for 3 months towards medicine part of
SHO training.
- Training Posts
- Part time training, e.g. in
shared posts: The Board has no objection in principle in local arrangements
for part time training in ICM, provided training time was counted
pro rata to the total time requirements for all trainees.
- academic posts: Lecturer or
other academic posts are also acceptable if the clinical training
content were totalled pro rata as for part time training.
- Training units
- capacity of units: The Board
does not intend to limit the numbers of trainees in any one recognised
unit: The Local Advisors, in consultation with Advisors for the
specialties, will judge the training capacity of a unit.
- rôle of HDUs: Training should
be dedicated to ICM, but it is accepted that ICU staff would help
out in the HDU.
- Advanced training
- paediatric intensive care medicine:
Training in paediatric intensive care medicine can count towards
advanced training, but limited only to a three month module.
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