Eligibility for appearing in Exam of IFCCM

• Candidates are eligible to appear for the fellowship exam (IFCCM) after completing one year training post IDCCM in a recognized centre.

Mandatory requirements to be completed prior to exam

• Certificate from the teacher/institute stating satisfactory completion of training.

• Training & Assessment Record Form should be duly filled and certified by teacher.

• Candidates with a basic qualification in medicine or allied subjects should undergo training for at least 3 months in anaesthesia with emphasis on airway management and use of anaesthesic drugs.

• A poster/ oral paper can be presented at any national conference during the course duration. The candidate also publish his/her work in any peer reviewed indexed journal (he/she should be a 1st, 2nd or corresponding author).The poster/paper may be presented not only in the ISCCM national conference, but any national body meeting related to critical care (e.g APICON, MAPCON, ISACON) or international conference of various societies e,.g ESICM, SCCM, ERS and ATS.

• Audit or Research is mandatory -It should be submitted by the candidate along with the Exam form. If the candidate has chosen to conduct the research during the course tenure, then the research submitted alongwith the form should be completed in terms of the result and the conclusion. Any research which is pending for ethics approval or still in recruiting phase or where the results have not been evaluated WILL NOT be considered as complete and the candidate will not be able to submit the form.

• Effective from 1st December 2020 attendance during the STEP programme for all students of IFCCM would be mandatory All students would need to have a minimum of 60% attendance for an academic year in order to be considered eligible to give the exams.

The structure of IFCC exam

• Exam will be conducted by four examiners in an ICU setting & will include

  • Part I: 3 Clinical cases + Communication
  • Part II: 4 Stations
    • Logbook, Audit/Research evaluation, Critical appraisal of a research paper
    • Investigations
    • Hemodynamics
    • Ventilation
  • Instructions:
    Both parts are mandatory. Passing in each part separately is mandatory. Passing marks are 50 % for each section.

Candidates will be awarded the fellowship after passing the exam in the convocation ceremony at the next annual conference of the ISCCM