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Northern Intensive Care Training Scheme (NICTS) for Intensive Care Medicine
 The Northern Hospital is a 325 inpatient bed facility providing a broad range of medical, surgical, and obstetric services. The Hospital admits over 20,000 inpatients each year and includes a 10-bed general medical/surgical ICU which sees over 700 admissions per annum.
The Northern Intensive Care Training Scheme (NICTS) provides accredited training suitable for JFICM / CICM, RACP, ANZCA and ACEM candidates. NICTS is supported by eight qualified and enthusiastic intensive care physicians, with experience and qualifications in echocardiography, bronchoscopy, endoscopy, respiratory medicine, perioperative medicine, emergency medicine, internal medicine, retrieval medicine, and research. The intensivists provide on-site support and surpervision of all trainees.
The ICU team supports multidisciplinary outreach services to other hospital departments through the Liaison Nurse, various Emergency Teams (Trauma, Cardiac Arrest, and MET), Nutrition, Tracheostomy services.
Trainees gain hands-on training and experience in assessement and management of emergency and compex patients, invasive procedures (e.g. insertion of central venous & pulmonary artery catheters, percutaneous tracheotomy, etc.), diagnostic procedures (bronchoscopy, endoscopy, echocardiography, etc.)
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NICTS provides access to compulsory training modules:
- intensive care - basic and advanced
- senior registrar posts
- general (internal) medicine
- anaesthesia
- research and formal project
- ADAPT workshops
- EMST
NICTS also provides a comprehensive education program for basic and advanced trainees. Trainees are encouraged to attend relevant scientific meetings, compulsory and optional training courses. |
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