Curriculum

The Acute Care Common Stem curriculum is contained in the ACCS Manual and is divided up into the four speciality sections.

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Due to the nature of the specialities involved, there is some overlap among the curricula; similarly there is inevitable cross-over between the knowledge and skills lists. Competencies, skills and knowledge can be achieved in any one of the four speciality modules. The ACCS Manual contains a list of common competencies (pages 275-9) and of procedural competencies (pages 281-2) in a matrix of transferable skills.

ACCS training comprises four modules, GIM (Acute) (ACCS manual Appendix C), anaesthesia (ACCS manual Appendix D), emergency medicine (ACCS manual Appendix E) and ICM (ACCS manual Appendix F), each of which is composed of units of training, some of which are compulsory, others are optional. The units cater for general and specialist clinical areas as well as generic non-clinical subjects. Each unit is described in terms of:

• the subject area;
• the required knowledge;
• the required skills;
• the required attitudes and behaviour;
• workplace training objectives for the trainee;
• and for some specialist areas, the training environment

Your ACCS portfolio, including logbook and work place assessments, should allow you to demonstrate competence in all of the curricula which will be required to successfully complete the ACCS programme. Please refer to the specific home pages for more information on the portfolios for each module.