St George ICU is dedicated to consistent high-quality education, including comprehensive exam practice, and offers and impressive array of Mandatory courses for CICM trainees.
Courses & Workshops
CICM Accredited Mandatory Courses
Other Courses
- BASIC
- Introductory Echocardiography Course (also ASUM CCPU accredited)
- Communications course
- Practical Family Donation Conversation (FDC) Workshop
- Beyond BASIC Invasive Mechanical Ventilation
- Beyond BASIC Nephrology
- Intro 2 Sim
- Airway workshops: Vortex, Advanced and Expert level
- ECMO workshop
- Re-sternotomy workshop
- Multidisciplinary haemodynamic, ventilation and renal workshops
Exam Teaching
Fellowship Exam
- Weekly tailored to exam candidate needs, mixture of SAQ or Hot Case practice, equipment sessions
- Fellowship examiners at St George ICU include Prof van Haren, Dr Swapnil Pawar, Dr Anne-Marie Welsh
- Participation in Sydney Long Course (co-ordinated by Sumesh Arora from POWH) – a biannual part 2 preparatory course
Primary Exam
- Weekly written question practice facilitated by Dr Swapnil Pawar (staff specialist and CICM primary/fellowship examiner)
- Five questions submitted and feedback provided each week
- Viva practice under exam conditions
Echocardiography Education
- Weekly sonographer-lead 1:1 hands-on teaching, working towards completion of mandatory training requirements (30 focused cardiac ultrasound).
- Monthly Friday morning echocardiography didactic talks on focused cardiac ultrasound and related topics.
- Bedside teaching by the unit’s numerous CICM approved assessors
- Dr. Behny Samadi – ASCeXAM
- Dr. Anne-Marie Welsh – Critical Care DDU & ASCeXAM
- Dr. Maz Razavian – PGDipEcho
- Prof. Frank van Haren – PGDipEcho
- Post-Graduate Echocardiography Fellow
Simulation-based Education
- Regular Interdisciplinary Simulation-based education facilitated by the Education & Sim Fellow and Clinical Nurse Educator team.
- The ICU boasts a State of the art simulation facility.
- In-situ interdepartmental simulation training is conducted throughout the year in conjunction with the departments of Anaesthesia and Emergency Medicine.
Educational Meetings
Weekly Departmental Grand Rounds
Chaired by Prof Frank van Haren (ICU Director), this is a 90-minute weekly meeting which consists of in-depth discussion of clinical cases that are currently being looked after in ICU. The discussion involves all strata of ICU medical staff from RMO to consultant and teaching is provided explicitly for trainees. There is also the opportunity to learn from discussion between consultants on management strategies and an insight into the complexities of decision making in challenging ICU cases.
Weekly Education on Tuesday morning & Thursday afternoon
- A 45 minute protected teaching session is conducted each Thursday afternoon. This is Consultant-led and covers a rotating schedule of topics structured on the CICM fellowship syllabus
- Tuesdays morning meetings include a monthly journal club, monthly morbidity and mortality meeting and fortnightly presentations from consultants and guest speakers on topics of interest to ICU
- Examples include toxicology updates, and emerging interventional techniques in pulmonary embolism