Acute Care Common Stem

The Programme Leads are:

Dr Fiona Barratt for Emergency Medicine (fiona.barratt@wsht.nhs.uk)  

Dr Justin Dickens for Anaesthetics and ICM (justin.dickens@wsht.nhs.uk)  

Dr Rob Haigh for Acute Medicine (robert.haigh@wsht.nhs.uk)  




The aim of ACCS training is to produce for the NHS multi-competent junior doctors able to recognise and manage the sick patient, who can define the nature of the specialist intervention required and who have the complementary specialty training required for the programmes in emergency medicine, GIM (A) and ICM.
Objectives Within the overall aim, each specialty has a specific objective for ACCS
training:
  • Anaesthesia To produce a cohort of trainees with more widely based experience than is available solely within the anaesthesia CCT programme and to allow those who want to obtain a joint CCT in anaesthesia and ICM to obtain the complementary specialties in a pre-planned and structured manner
  • Emergency Medicine To provide training that delivers the first two years of the CCT in Emergency Medicine in a pre-planned and structured manner.
  • GIM (Acute) To provide training which delivers the Level I competences for the CCT in GIM (Acute) in a pre-planned and structured manner.
  • Intensive Care Medicine (ICM) To allow trainees who want to obtain a joint CCT in ICM to obtain the competences of the complementary specialties in a pre-planned and structured manner.