The Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FICM)

Intensive Care Medicine (ICM) is a body of specialist knowledge and practice concerned with the treatment of patients, with, at risk of, or recovering from potentially life-threatening failure of one or more of the body’s organ systems. It includes the provision of organ system support, the investigation, diagnosis, and treatment of acute illness, systems management and patient safety, ethics, end-of-life care, and the support of families.

It is an exciting and fulfilling specialty of medicine.