Educational Development Time (EDT), also known as self-development time (SDT) or time for supporting professional activities (SPA time), allows doctors to pursue activities that support their professional growth, the requirements of their training curricula and those of the GMC Professional Capabilities Framework.
For those in intensive care medicine who are dual or triple training with partner specialties (anaesthesia, acute medicine, general medicine, respiratory, renal, emergency medicine) or those working towards sub-specialty accreditation (e.g. PHEM or PICM), it is recognised that there may be a stretch of several months where IiTs are either not exposed to ICM, to their partner specialities or sub specialty. When this experience cannot be facilitated via EDT, Keeping in Touch (KIT) days may be utilised.
Keeping in touch (KIT) days [1] are designed for those in dual or triple training programmes or who are working towards subspecialty accreditation, to maintain specialty specific skill sets, when there are extended periods of reduced clinical exposure to a particular specialty or subspecialty. An example of this would be those in stage 3 ICM training who are not exposed to their partner specialty or subspecialty for 12 months.
[1]*Please note that FICM KIT days described above are distinct from the ‘Keeping in Touch’ days endorsed during statutory leave.
