From the beginning of 2010 this newly incorporated body will assume responsibility for the training and certification of medical practitioners (Intensive Care Physicians) and standards in the field of intensive care medicine in this region.
The new body, which will be based in Melbourne, will take over the training program from the existing Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (JFICM), which was formed in 2002 as part of both the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) and the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA). The new college will be based on a proud heritage of intensive care medicine in Australia and New Zealand, dating from the first postgraduate program and examinations in intensive care medicine in the world in 1979.
For more information, go to their new website here.