The curriculum defines the breadth of competencies that should be included in the examination. This curriculum is publicly available and is approved by the GMC with recent review. The development of the syllabus for the CCT in ICM has drawn extensively on the Competency Based Training in Intensive Care Medicine in Europe (CoBaTrICE) syllabus. The latter is an international partnership of professional organisations and critical care clinicians working together to harmonise training in Intensive Care Medicine worldwide. The competencies which underpin the 2021 UK ICM curriculum’s 14 High Level Learning Outcomes (HiLLOs) are the same as those within the previous curriculum.
Exam questions are all derived from this curriculum, mapped to Stages 1 and 2 of ICM training, excluding the ‘Special Skills Year’, and written and reviewed by current practicing UK intensive care physicians; examiners are required to step down when they retire from their ICM clinical role.
There has been no change in exam content over time, except as updates to questions in the question bank (as described above).
