FFICM Examination Regulations

Published 19/12/2022

4. Prioritisation of Applications

4.1       There is no prioritisation for the MCQ paper.

4.2       Subject to their being eligible in all other respects to sit the OSCE and/or SOE, priority will be given to Applicants who are:

4.2.1    Doctors currently in Deanery approved training posts on GMC approved training programmes in Intensive Care Medicine (either as part of a Single, Joint or Dual programme).

4.3       The following Applicants will be accepted, in the order listed, if the Faculty has the capacity to examine them at the sitting applied for, in the OSCE and/or SOE:

4.3.1    Doctors currently in Deanery approved training posts on GMC approved training programmes who have registered for Affiliate Trainee Registration and achieved Affiliate Fellowship; and

4.3.2    Doctors currently sponsored under the MTI IP scheme for Intensive Care Medicine; and

4.3.3    All other eligible categories not listed above.      

Candidates in all the above categories will automatically be booked on to exams on application.  However, the Faculty reserves the right to move candidates listed at paragraph 4.3 to a later sitting of the exam should there be insufficient capacity to examine them at the sitting applied for.