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The FICM welcomes the RCoA's Welfare and Morale report. The FICM recognises the enormous importance of ensuring that the support given to doctors in training remains full and responsive, and as the report notes, this, along with training numbers growth, is...
Thank you to everyone who took the time to vote during the FICM Board Elections. The Faculty would like to congratulate those who were newly elected and re-elected. We would also like to thank the candidates who were unsuccessful on this occasion, we hope you will stand again in the...
The Faculty is pleased to release Science, skills and safety: a framework for medical student education in anaesthesia, intensive care, pain and perioperative medicine.
This important framework, started initially by the Royal College of Anaesthetists, developed into a wider project benefiting from the inclusion of intensive care and pain medicine. ...
Critical Works is a quick and easy to read summary of all the major projects in the works from your Faculty. Critical Works will become an annual brief summary of activity for FICM Fellows and Members.
Date: 06 November 2017
The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Network is delighted to announce the winners of the research awards run in partnership with the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FICM). The awards, for members of the FICM, recognise research active consultants, specialty and associate doctors and
...Notice is hereby given that an election for six vacancies on the Board of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine will be held on 28th November 2017. Those eligible to vote (Fellows, Associate Fellows, Affiliate Fellows and Members) should have received...
The FICM Smaller and Specialist Units Advisor Group, led by Dr Chris Thorpe, have produced interim guidance on governance for remote and rural intensive care units. The aim of the document is to help clarify aspects of GPICS V1 which can be problematic for ICUs in remote and rural areas. If...
Critical Futures is a long term project commissioned through the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine. Its aim is to take forward a suite of work streams that analyse and respond to anticipated changes and pressures on critical care and related services.
The Faculty is pleased to launch the first step on...
Congratulations to Dr Andrew Ratcliffe who has been elected as the new FICM Deputy Trainee Representative.
The appointment is for two years and will begin in January 2018, Dr Ratcliffe will act as Deputy Trainee Rep for the first year and will then take over as Lead Trainee Rep in January 2019.
Thank you to all those who stood in...
NELA statement by FICM
The Third Patients’ Report of the National Emergency Laparotomy Audit (NELA) has been published today
The Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine fully supports the recommendations of this report to improve the outcome of this group of patients. FICM notes that 78% of patients are already admitted to...