CICM Fellowship
Education resources and links recommended by The Alfred ICU education team.
See also CICM Fellowship Exams database
Self-directed learning
- Burns SDL
- Cardiogenic shock and circulatory support devices SDL
- Coma, Seizures and Weakness (Neuro III) SDL
- Communication SDL
- Electrolytes and Metabolic Crises SDL
- End of Life and Organ Donation SDL
- GI and Nutrition SDL
- Haematology and Oncology SDL
- Haemodynamics SDL
- Infectious diseases and Microbiology SDL
- Mechanical ventilation SDL
- Medical Emergency Teams (MET) SDL
- Patient Safety SDL
- Post- cardiac surgery SDL
- Renal failure and RRT SDL
- Respiratory failure SDL
- Resuscitation I and II SDL
- Subarachnoid haemorrhage and Stroke (Neuro II) SDL
- Sedation and Delirium (Neuro I) SDL
- Sepsis and Septic Shock SDL
- Shock and vasoactive agents SDL
- Toxicology SDL
- Transfusion & Blood Products SDL
- Transplant patients in ICU SDL (heart and lung)
- Trauma SDL
- Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) SDL
Simulation-based education
- ICU-IS-SIM (The Alfred ICU In Situ Simulation programme, includes access to scenarios)
- Center for Medical Simulation (Harvard)
- Australian Society for Simulation in Healthcare (ASSH)
- EuSim Group
- MobileSim (Jon Gatward’s in situ simulation website)
- National Health Education and Training in Simulation (NHET-Sim)
- NeuroSim (the neuroanaesthesia course)
- Society in Europe for Simulation Applied to Medicine (SESAM)
- Society for Simulation in Healthcare
- Simulation and Clinical Skills, DOH Victoria
- Victorian Simulated Patient Network
- Victorian Simulation Alliance
Caulfield ABI Tracheostomy Emergency Resources
- Tracheostomy Emergency 001 (blocked tracheostomy tube)
- Tracheostomy Emergency 002 (displaced tracheostomy tube)
- Tracheostomy Emergency 003 (bleeding tracheostomy)
- Tracheostomy emergencies (password protected Moodle page)
- Tracheostomy emergencies MCQ test (password protected Moodle page)
- Alfred Health Learning Management System (password protected)
CICM Exam Preparation
CICM Exam resources (all of these resources are free to access):
- Written practice question (SAQs) for CICM Second Part Exam Preparation on INTENSIVE. Additional/ older questions can be accessed as google docs:
- Second Part.
- Searchable database of past FCICM Second Part exam questions on litfl.com
- Critical Care Compendium – litfl.com searchable database of over 1,600 pages on (almost) everything you need to know for the FCICM exam
- Exams-Second Part – The official CICM pages detailing the second part exam, including exam locations, dates, costs and free downloads of past papers with the examiner’s reports (candidates must read these carefully!)
- FCICM Exam Writing Paper (pdf) – print this out (double-sided) to practice answering questions under exam conditions
First Part Exam resources:
- Written practice question (SAQs) for CICM First Part Exam Preparation on INTENSIVE. Additional/ older questions can be accessed as google docs: First Part.
- Part One – a superb, easy to use website covering both the CICM and ANZCA part one exam curricula that should be the first stop for all First Part candidates.
- ICUPrimaryPrep – a very useful collection of past CICM First Part exam questions and study notes
- Deranged Physiology – a fantastic ICU exam resource, packed with useful illustrations
- Candidates should consider attending the Victorian Primary Exam Candidates Course (VPECC)
- Exams-First Part – The official CICM pages detailing the first part exam, including exam locations, dates, costs and free downloads of past papers with the examiner’s reports (candidates must read these carefully!)
- CICM Exam Writing Paper (pdf) – print this out (double-sided) to practice answering questions under exam conditions
FOAMcc resources
FOAMcc is ‘free open-access meducation for critical care’. In addition to INTENSIVE, there are lots of other great FOAMcc resources out there. Some of our favourites include:
- Critical Care Reviews
- Deranged Physiology
- EDECMO.org
- EMCrit
- Essential Critical Care
- Intensive Care Network
- Maryland Critical Care Project
- NCCU education
- PulmCCM.org
- Resus.ME
- SMACC (The Social Media and Critical Care conference and podcast)
- The Bottom Line (critical care literature summaries)
- The Resuscitationist’s Awesome Guide to Everything (RAGE) podcast
Examination Library
CICM
Chris is an Intensivist and ECMO specialist at The Alfred ICU, where he is Deputy Director (Education). He is a Clinical Adjunct Associate Professor at Monash University, the Lead for the Clinician Educator Incubator programme, and a CICM First Part Examiner.
He is an internationally recognised Clinician Educator with a passion for helping clinicians learn and for improving the clinical performance of individuals and collectives. He was one of the founders of the FOAM movement (Free Open-Access Medical education) has been recognised for his contributions to education with awards from ANZICS, ANZAHPE, and ACEM.
His one great achievement is being the father of three amazing children.
On Bluesky, he is @precordialthump.bsky.social and on the site that Elon has screwed up, he is @precordialthump.
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