Intensive Care Medicine

Intensive care

42 months

Foundation Time 6, core training 24 and the transition year 12

Anaesthesia

12 months

At least 6 of them should be in a registrar post the College approves

Medicine

12 months

Outside intensive care, at least 6 of them should be in a registrar post

Elective

6 months

In intensive care or a related discipline

• Accredited unitsEvery listed unit counts for Foundation Time. A General Training unit counts for all of core training, a 12-month unit for up to 12 months of it, and a Limited General Training unit for up to 6 months
• Affiliated unitsNot accredited in their own right. A rotation there from its parent unit counts for up to 16 weeks in a year, during an approved 12 months at the parent, once in core training
• ExposuresA unit can also give cardiothoracic, neurological or trauma exposure, paediatric exposure, or the regional, rural or remote term
• Australia124 accredited units: 26 for all of core training, 26 for up to 12 months, 42 for up to 6 months, 24 for Foundation Time only and 6 affiliated. Albury Wodonga Health is in two states' counts and is counted once here
• Aotearoa New Zealand15 units: 4 for all of core (Auckland City Hospital's general unit, Christchurch, Waikato and Wellington), 4 for up to 12 months, 4 for up to 6 months, 2 for Foundation Time only and 1 for elective time
• Paediatric units, Aotearoa New ZealandStarship Children's Hospital, for all of core, with cardiothoracic, neurological and trauma exposure
• Hong Kong and overseas7 units in Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital for all of core, and 11 in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Singapore and India, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital in Singapore for all of core
• In the territoryCanberra Hospital (all three exposures) for all of core training, and North Canberra Hospital for up to 6 months

What every accredited unit must give you

Night shifts

50%

Of your rostered time at most, and ideally less

Outside the unit

25%

Of rostered time at most on rapid response or outreach roles, or 33% with a specialist supervising directly

Patients

1,000

A year usually, 400 of them ventilated, in a unit for all of core. In a 12-month unit, 750 with 300 ventilated

Supervisor of training

10

Trainees of any college at most for each supervisor of training

Supervisor time

8 hours

A week at least, out of clinical work, for each supervisor of training

Regional, rural or remote

6 months

At least, from postgraduate year 3, in a hospital accredited for it

Paediatric

3 months

At least, by the kind of post, from postgraduate year 3, approved in advance

Subspecialties

3

Cardiothoracic, neurological and trauma intensive care, two of them before Phase 3

First Part Examination

5

Attempts, from selection, passed before core training

Second Part Examination

5

Attempts, after 12 months of core training, passed before the transition year

Observed clinical encounters

8

One for each 3 months of core training, each with a different clinical focus

Workplace competency assessments

8

Five before the transition year, three before it ends

Echocardiography

30

Focused cardiac ultrasound cases, passed by an approved assessor before the transition year

Formal Project

1

Submitted before the transition year, approved by its end

Online courses

7

Finished before Phase 3, beside the Indigenous health course due before Phase 2

Face-to-face courses

7

Areas, six finished before Phase 3 and the Management Skills Course in Phase 3

Part-time

0.4

Of full time at least, in-hours and out-of-hours duties included, approved in advance

Leave

8 weeks

At most in a 12-month term for all purposes, parental leave apart, for the term to count

Interruption

3 years

At most in all, approved 52 weeks at a time

Time limit

12 years

To finish every requirement, from registration with the College