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Have any of you taken this exam or any experience with it and its worth/recognition in North America?
Thank you
Have any of you taken this exam or any experience with it and its worth/recognition in North America?
Thank you
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Tl; Dr: No and No
Your question is pretty broad and doesn’t give much information and that makes it harder to answer. Your question also involves a European certification exam which did not replace national certification exams in European countries this in itself might also limit replies.
Foreign certification exam by itself is not going to hold much value so it also depends on what specific training you are going to pare it with and what you want to use the certification for.
If you want to be an Intensivist primarily
Where in North America ? As far as the US goes in general (ACGME or RCPSC training in a primary speciality plus ACGME Critical Care training will get you certified; however if you have RCPSC Anesthesiology training you won’t be able to use your training to get access to the ABA exams and the training is only one year in US so you would need to take an additional year of either ACGME or RCPSC training to get access to the RCPSC exams; if you go over the the anesthesology forums you will see that the main criteria to getting an ACGME Anesthesiology Critical Care fellowship for an Anesthesiology applicant seem to be possessing a pulse: Anesthesiology Critical Care Fellowship 2020-2021 ACCM. If you were e.g. RCPSC Internal Medicine you could use that training to take the ABIM internal medicine exam and once certified take the US subspecialty exams) before there were pathways for ACGME Emergency Medicine graduates without training in another CCM entry speciality to take an American Critical Care Board exam some people may have taken the EDIC to have some certification however there was never any guarantee that any US hospital would credential you indefinitely on that basis.
As far as Canada goes broadly if you want to be a recognised as a specialist then RCPSC certification in your speciality seems to be the best option. If you have non-accredited fellowship training in Canada and we’re taking the exam to pair with that then I would imagine that the value of the exam would vary by province and by the individual employer.
I can’t really speak to what role the exam might have if you were looking to the exam as a sign that you had some critical care knowledge looking for a job primarily practicing another speciality with some reaponsibility for an ICU in a critical access hospital for example. But I’m not sure it would be a big factor.
Your question is pretty broad and doesn’t give much information and that makes it harder to answer. Your question also involves a European certification exam which did not replace national certification exams in European countries this in itself might also limit replies.
Foreign certification exam by itself is not going to hold much value so it also depends on what specific training you are going to pare it with and what you want to use the certification for.
If you want to be an Intensivist primarily
Where in North America ? As far as the US goes in general (ACGME or RCPSC training in a primary speciality plus ACGME Critical Care training will get you certified; however if you have RCPSC Anesthesiology training you won’t be able to use your training to get access to the ABA exams and the training is only one year in US so you would need to take an additional year of either ACGME or RCPSC training to get access to the RCPSC exams; if you go over the the anesthesology forums you will see that the main criteria to getting an ACGME Anesthesiology Critical Care fellowship for an Anesthesiology applicant seem to be possessing a pulse: Anesthesiology Critical Care Fellowship 2020-2021 ACCM. If you were e.g. RCPSC Internal Medicine you could use that training to take the ABIM internal medicine exam and once certified take the US subspecialty exams) before there were pathways for ACGME Emergency Medicine graduates without training in another CCM entry speciality to take an American Critical Care Board exam some people may have taken the EDIC to have some certification however there was never any guarantee that any US hospital would credential you indefinitely on that basis.
As far as Canada goes broadly if you want to be a recognised as a specialist then RCPSC certification in your speciality seems to be the best option. If you have non-accredited fellowship training in Canada and we’re taking the exam to pair with that then I would imagine that the value of the exam would vary by province and by the individual employer.
I can’t really speak to what role the exam might have if you were looking to the exam as a sign that you had some critical care knowledge looking for a job primarily practicing another speciality with some reaponsibility for an ICU in a critical access hospital for example. But I’m not sure it would be a big factor.
