Emergency Medicine Curriculum

The emergency medicine curriculum provides a framework from ST1/CT1 till completion of training at CCT level. The curriculum not only indicates the skills and knowledge needed but the types of learning opportunities and the assessment methods - including workplace based assessment. The curriculum is highlighted with colours to identify competencies expected by certain levels of training. All ACCS (EM) trainees must have completed the sections in black text by the end of their ST2/CT2 training though many of these competencies may be covered in the complementary specialities of ACCS. Those competencies expected at the end of ST3 (after Paediatric and Orthopaedic training) are indicated in blue and at the end of ST5 (after a further 2 years of training in Emergency Medicine) are indicated in red.

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ST3 will comprise at least 6 months of Paediatric EM and either 6 months in Trauma and orthopaedics, or in EM with protected training time to gain competencies in musculoskeletal trauma. The latter post would allow the trainee to for example receive training in fracture clinics, hand surgery lists and by following multiply injured patients from the ED for the first 4 to 6 hours of their inpatient/operative care. ST4 to 6 are spent receiving incrementally more advanced clinical, academic and managerial training in the Emergency Department. Up to 6 months of this may be spent working outside the ED gaining additional competencies for example in neurosurgical or radiological assessment of patients. This is at the discretion of the training supervisor and PG Deanery, based on individual training requirements. The arrangement of this optional out of department training will vary between Deaneries.