Education and Training

One of WICS main roles is improving education and training in Intensive Care Medicine (ICM). Nationally, training is overseen by the Intercollegiate Board for Training in Intensive Care Medicine (ICBTICM). It has produced a series of documents regarding standards of training, who is eligible to apply for training programmes and how those programmes should be structured.

Dr Chris Thorpe is the Regional Advisor for ICM and sits on WICS Council. Trainees are represented on Council by Dr Nick Mason Chairman of Welsh Intensivists in Training.

For reference here are:

  • CCST Training Requirements
  • Summary of Board's Training Requirements
  • Advice for Candidates for the Diploma Exam
  • ICBTICM Trainer's Manual

    • Competency Based Training Documents (in Word format)

  • The general scheme is explained in Part 1.
  • The Educational Training Record (logbook) is in Part 2.
  • SHO training is detailed in Part 3.
  • SpR level 1 (intermediate) training in Part 4.
  • SpR level 2 (advanced) training in Part 5.

    • Please refer to the ICBTICM's pages on the ICS website: www.ics.ac.uk for the latest publications from the Board.