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Critical Care

A variety of intense, yet highly rewarding career paths involving work with patients in need of emergency help.

What Critical Care Specialists Do

Critical Care is a field of medicine that relates to caring for and providing treatment to critically injured, ill and/or dying patients.

Intensive Care – In the field of medicine, Critical Care Practitioners treat and manage individuals with acute, life-threatening illnesses, injuries or related problems.

They typically work in the intensive care or emergency sections of a hospital, treating patients who are most critically at risk.

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Anaesthetists are concerned with providing sedation and anaesthesia solutions for surgery and other procedures. Anaesthetists also provide pain management and general patient care during procedures, as well as applying their skills and knowledge in resuscitation and intensive care medicine.
Registration Steps to become an Anaesthetist

  1. Accredited Undergraduate Medicine Degree or Postgraduate Medicine Degree
  2. General Medical Registration
  3. Five Years of full-time training, including six months introductory training, eighteen months basic training, two years advanced training and one year provisional fellowship training.
  4. Anaesthesia Professionals may also choose to sub-specialise in paediatrics, obstetrics and other areas during training.

Emergency Medicine Professionals are concerned with general medicine in an emergency environment, specifically in resuscitation or diagnosis of acute illness.

Registration Steps to become an Emergency Medicine Practitioner

  1. Accredited Undergraduate Medicine Degree or Postgraduate Medicine Degree
  2. General Medical Registration
  3. Five years of full-time training, including one year of Provisional Training and four years of Advanced Training including six months of critical care, six months of non-emergency training.

Intensive Care Professionals are concerned with diagnosing, treating and managing problems with severe medical and surgical disorders and illnesses. They typically work with critically ill patients as part of a multidisciplinary team.

Registration Steps to become a General Intensive Care Practitioner

  1. Accredited Undergraduate Medicine Degree or Postgraduate Medicine Degree
  2. General Medical Registration
  3. Completion of 6 months intensive care supervised experience in a CICM accredited unit within the last 3 years
  4. Six years of full-time training, including six months foundational training, two years of core training, one year of transition training, one year of clinical anaesthesia training, one year of clinical medicine training and six months of elective training.
Skills

Critical Care Medicine provides you with the following valuable skills

Anaesthesia 90%
Duty of Care & Ethics 95%
Diagnosis, Intervention & Management of Severe Diseases 85%
Emergency & Acute Medical Treatment 100%
Pulmonary, Cardiovascular & Miscellaneous Testing 90%
Prognosis & Management of Deterioration 100%
Physical examination & Procedural skills 85%
Pain & Distress Relief 90%
Report Writing & Record Keeping 100%

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