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Critical Care Clinics

Volume 22, Issue 3, July 2006, Pages 539-546
Critical Care Clinics

A Global View of Education and Training in Critical Care Medicine

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World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine educational committee

The WFSICCM educational committee examined differences and similarities in training and specialty status between various countries in different continents to explore the possibility of producing common structures. This was done through questionnaire surveys of the WFSICCM, data obtained from the CoBaTriCE Study performed by the European Society of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine (ESICM), and data obtained from surveys of the Pan American and Iberic Federation of Societies of Intensive Care

Structure of intensive care medicine training

It was found that of 45 countries, 37 had formal intensive care medicine (ICM) training programs. It was also found that within the European region different training programs were identified. The models of training in critical care medicine are through the following pathways: supraspecialty (39%); multiple subspecialty (30%); single subspecialty (22%); primary specialty (9%).

Content and delivery of intensive care medicine training

In this respect it was found that not all formal training programs have a national curriculum for ICM. Frequent

Summary

Training in CCM sponsored by the WFSICCM should provide a competency approach that permits diversity of training methods, while creating a common outcome: doctors with a universal set of knowledge, skills, and attitudes essential for a specialist in ICM. Harmonizing educational outcomes and strengthening processes of training and accreditation facilitates freedom of movement of specialists, and enhances the quality of care they provide worldwide.

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