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
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