ACCS Aims
The aim of ACCS training is to produce multi-competent junior doctors able to recognise and manage the sick patient and who have the complementary specialty training required for Higher Specialty Training in Emergency Medicine, JRCPTB specialty, Anaesthetics and Intensive Care Medicine.
Within the overall aim, each parent specialty has a specific objective for their ACCS doctors in training:
Intensive Care Medicine
ACCS is one of the training options available for delivering the core competencies required for a CCT in GIM, IM or one of the JRCPTB specialties in a pre-planned and structured manner. The first two years of ACCS training (IM, EM, Anaesthetics and ICM) are followed by a further year in IM. This three year training programme fulfils the requirements for progression to Higher training in GIM, IM or any of the JRCPTB specialties.
Emergency Medicine
ACCS constitutes the first three years of the CCT in EM in a pre-planned and structured manner. The first two years of ACCS training (EM, IM, Anaesthetics and ICM) are followed by a further year gaining additional competences in adult EM (including musculoskeletal emergencies) and Paediatric Emergency Medicine; thus, fulfilling the requirements to progress to Higher training in EM.
Anaesthetics
Anaesthetics offers career opportunities in a wide range of areas all of which can be achieved by direct entry to an Anaesthetics CCT programme. However, those doctors in training with an interest in the ‘acute’ end of the anaesthetic spectrum will find ACCS an ideal career starting point. It provides doctors in training with more widely based experience than is available via the core Anaesthetics programme. The first two years of ACCS training (IM, EM, Anaesthetics and ICM) are followed by two years spent gaining additional competences in Anaesthetics, thus fulfilling the requirements for progression to ST4.
Internal Medicine
ACCS allows doctors in training who wish to obtain the single CCT in ICM or dual CCT in Internal Medicine and ICM, Anaesthetics and ICM or Emergency Medicine and ICM, to obtain the competencies of the complementary specialties in a pre-planned and structured manner.