“The Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine welcomes the GIRFT Cardiothoracic Surgery Report, which highlights the importance of critical care services to the efficient management of cardiac surgery. It importantly also recognises the considerable issue of bed management that critical care teams manage on a daily...
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Since late 2015 the Faculty has been undertaking local workforce engagements, designed to bring together stakeholders from across a region to build up a picture of both key local workforce messages and Trust-level projection data.
The fourth Regional Workforce Engagment Meeting was arranged for the Yorkshire and Humber region, and this took place in...
ICM/Anaesthesia Dual CCT Training
Specialist Modules Joint Statement
It has been written into both curricula that training in stage 2 ICM/higher anaesthesia specialist modules should be dual counted for both programmes and that the requirements are flexible so that Dual trainees can pick up these competencies in either their anaesthesia attachment...
On 30th May 2017, the Supreme Court refused permission to the appellant to appeal in this case. The statement previously published on behalf of the FICM and ICS has been updated to reflect this decision. You can see the original news item here.
For the second consecutive year the Faculty of Intensive care Medicine, in conjunction with the NIHR Clinical Research Network, are offering two awards which aim to recognise outstanding contributions from NHS Clinicians to the conduct of NIHR Clinical Research Network portfolio research studies.
There are two awards, funded by FICM, with a...
The Academic Centre for Medical Education at UCL is working with the GMC to reviewFitness to Practise procedures and update the assessments to ensure each assessment is fair to the doctor being assessed. To do this, UCL and the GMC are holding validation events for new assessment material and are looking for interested and...
NCEPOD is undertaking a new study to identify and explore remediable factors in the process of care in the peri-operative management of surgical patients with diabetes.
Please read below for further details on the Case Note Reviewers they require;
It will be a retrospective review of patients who are admitted to...
In 2014 the Faculty opened up the route of Associate Membership for individuals who had undertaken ACCP Training. During this transition period the ACCP Sub-Committee were able to review applications of equivalent training whilst the official ACCP curriculum was established.
Now that ACCP Training is established the FICM Board and ACCP Sub-Committee...
NCEPOD are recruiting a multi-disciplinary group of healthcare professionals with a working interest in Acute Heart Failure.
Case Reviewers will be asked to attend meetings during which they will assess case note extracts and questionnaires and provide expert opinion on the care patients receive. A training day will be held on...
The Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine welcomes the publication of the GMC’s review of postgraduate training flexibility, Adapting for the future. Specifically:
- Work life balance and diversity: Ensuring a happy, sustainable and diverse training workforce should be at the centre of all these discussions. Through the work of the FICM ...
The 2017 FICM Consultant Workforce Census is now available for completion.
Following three years of detailed census questions we will now move to a cycle of shorter annual censuses with less frequent detailed censuses on a triennial or quinquennial basis as required. This years census should now take under ten minutes...