30/12/2019

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1)    Medical objectives :

    Critical Care represents the highest level of continuing patient care and treatment, which involves continuing management and supervision by the multi-disciplinary team.

                    The philosophy of critical care services considers that:

v Critical Care provides a commitment to the needs and requirements of the critically ill patient, using a holistic approach, to achieve recovery where possible, with the relief of pain, discomfort and anxiety.

v Each person is an individual with particular needs, and will be treated with respect, empathy and preservation of dignity. Religious beliefs and cultural traditions will be respected.

v Communication with the patient and their carers is essential in the provision of intensive care, and we will inform both patient and carers throughout their stay.

v Critical Care is usually reserved for patients with threatened or established organ failure

v Because critical care is an expensive and limited resource, the critical care unit should be reserved for those patients who have a reasonable prospect of substantial recovery. To avoid inappropriate utilisation of this scarce resource, the decision to admit a patient to the critical care unit must be made at a senior level.

2)    Educational objectives :

For undergraduates

    To conduct learning objectives that cover the most critical cases that commonly
encountered in ICU and their management.

    To conduct active training courses and work shops for dealing with different critical  cases and different procedures done in ICU .

     To conduct both written and oral exam evaluation for each student after completing the critical care medicine course.

                                    For postgraduates

    To start developing both master and MD degrees in Critical care medicine .

    To put a well-defined curriculum and criteria for both degrees, this curriculum involving lectures, training courses and attendance.