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The Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine is pleased to receive applications for Affiliate Fellowship from medical practitioners holding a substantive or honorary NHS or Defence Medical Services consultant post in the United Kingdom with a sessional or other contracted clinical commitment to Intensive Care Medicine which does not meet the level of daytime clinical commitment requirement for full Fellowship.  Please note that there are no post-nominals associated with this membership category.

Eligibility
The following criteria define the level of daytime clinical commitment to ICM required to be eligible for full Fellowship of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine [FFICM]. There are TWO routes of entry to Affiliate Fellowship:

Route 1
Applicants must be a consultant with a defined, contracted daytime clinical commitment to Intensive Care Medicine which does not meet these criteria.  If you have a contracted clinical commitment to ICM which does meet these criteria, you should apply for Fellowship by Assessment (if you are a Fellow of one of the FICM trustee colleges) or Associate Fellowship (if you are not).

Daytime sessions or PAs for ICM have the following characteristics:

• Duties include the care of 'level 3' critically ill patients
• No concurrent duties for other specialties
• Contracted sessions/PAs are reimbursed at premium rate

Route 2
Applicants must be a registered ICM Affiliate Trainee (or have previously registered with the IBTICM/FICM via 'General Registration') who has completed, outside of the ICM CCT programme, training in Intensive Care Medicine commensurate with either:

• Intermediate level ICM as described by the curriculum for a Joint CCT in Intensive Care Medicine (if entered Higher Specialist Training before August 2012); or
• Stage 1 ICM as described by the curriculum for a standalone CCT in Intensive Care Medicine (if entered Higher Specialist Training after August 2012).

Applicants for Affilliate Fellowship must be a Fellow or Member in good standing of one of the FICM Trustee Colleges below, or an FICM Affiliate Trainee who has achieved the required level of training and competency.

Please Note:  FICM Affiliate Fellows who are fellows of one of the trustee colleges will pay a lower subscription rate than those with no trustee college affiliation. This is because the FICM receives financial support from its trustee colleges for facilities and services; single registrants must therefore contribute to these costs as already subsidised by those with dual fellowships.

Rights and privileges
Affiliate Fellowship confers the following rights and privileges:

• to describe themselves without abbreviation as an 'Affiliate Fellow of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine'
• to attend, speak and vote at General Meetings of the Faculty
• to vote in Faculty elections respective to any residential qualifications
• to be appointed to Committees, Working Parties and other groups of the Faculty
• to use the facilities of the RCoA buildings
• to attend available Faculty events
• to benefit from the arrangements organised by the Faculty for participating in Continuing Professional Development

Subscriptions
The subscription rate for Affiliate Fellowship for the 2012/2013 financial year is £110. Affiliate Fellows with an affiliation to the Royal College of Anaesthetists will have their subscription date (either April or October) alternated with their College subscription. All other applicants will have a subscription date dependent on when their application form is received. Applications forms received before 1 May 2013 will be included within the 2012/2013 financial year.

Subscriptions last from the billing dates of April to April and October to October and are not time limited depending on the financial year. As an example, a doctor who applies in February 2013 will be billed for Affiliate Fellowship in April 2013. They will not be billed again until April 2014.

Queries
If you have any problems or queries regarding your application please contact the Faculty.

Application form
Please click the links below for the Affiliate Fellowship application form and accompanying Direct Debit instructions.

Please Note: The application form must be submitted electronically via ficm@rcoa.ac.uk. The Direct Debit form must be submitted in hard copy, as banks will only accept original forms.