The Primary Exam is a daunting and time consuming hurdle. The resources for acquiring the knowledge required are varied and often difficult to use. These Primary Exam notes have therefore been painstakingly complied as a study aid and reference for teaching. They are intended for use for both the CICM and ANZCA primaries and would be useful for those intending sitting the ED exam too.

They are not meant to replace textbooks and do not claim to be complete. We encourage users to contact us if they would like to contribute to this awesome resource.

Concise and intentionally practical notes on common and tricky intensive care topics. These study notes are intended as summaries of frequently recurring topics and areas of perceived difficulty. The collection is not definitive and not necessarily authoritative, having been generated while preparing for the sitting of the 2009 and 2010 CICM Fellowship exams. There are plenty of leading textbooks that are commonly recommended for studying for the CICM Fellowship exam, most notably Teik Oh’s Intensive Care Manual. Pick one and use it. However, you are likely to find that no one text covers every topic equally.

You are welcome to download, print out and then amend and add these notes to your own. If there is a topic that you would like covered, e-mail us and we'll see what we can do. Alternatively, if you feel like contributing to the growth of this resource, then submit an article (Go to the frontpage and click on "Submit an article" under the login details, or select "Submit an article" from the "Registered users" dropdown menu).

General CICM Fellowship advice and tips

Some of this is advice you will have heard from your Supervisor of Training or other consultants in your department, some of it is available in exam preparation books; all of it is derived from the experience of having gone through the exam process itself.

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