College of Intensive Care Medicine
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The College of Intensive Care Medicine is the body responsible for intensive care medicine specialist training and education in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. The College offers a minimum six year training program, in both general and paediatric intensive care, with a number of assessments, culminating in Fellowship of the College of Intensive Care Medicine (FCICM). The College has over 1000 Fellows throughout the world. The main office is located in Melbourne, with regional committees throughout Australia, and national committees in Aotearoa New Zealand and Hong Kong.
Why us
The College Coat of Arms was developed with the intention to signify the bond that the College has to its geographic origin, its historic links to the College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) and the College of Physicians (RACP), its place as an institute of learning in the broad field of medicine and the specific role that intensive care medicine plays in caring for the sickest patients.
The shield contains the Southern Cross, which is symbolic of our geographic place and is also present in the flags of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand (in slightly differing form) and the ANZCA Coat of Arms. Also on the shield is a pair of hands to symbolize the caring for the whole person that is implicit to intensive care medicine and Leonardo’s Vitruvian man. This ‘ideal of human proportion’, as described by Vitruvius and drawn by Leonardo, is said to exemplify the blend of art and science characteristic of the renaissance period and also, perhaps, of intensive care medicine.
The crest is similar to the crests of ANZCA and RACP and shows a hand holding a Rod of Asclepius in front of a rising sun.
The supporters are distinctive avian fauna, representative of the two countries, the Lyrebird for Australia and the Tui (or Parson bird) for Aotearoa New Zealand.
The supporters stand on a compartment separated by water (The Tasman Sea) with Wattle and Silver Fern (respectively) at their feet, similar to the ANZCA Coat of Arms.
The motto ‘scientia sapientia cura’ was decided on after extensive consultation with the Fellowship, and a competition inviting suggestions. The Latin words are a translation of ‘caring with knowledge and wisdom’.
The shield contains the Southern Cross, which is symbolic of our geographic place and is also present in the flags of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand (in slightly differing form) and the ANZCA Coat of Arms. Also on the shield is a pair of hands to symbolize the caring for the whole person that is implicit to intensive care medicine and Leonardo’s Vitruvian man. This ‘ideal of human proportion’, as described by Vitruvius and drawn by Leonardo, is said to exemplify the blend of art and science characteristic of the renaissance period and also, perhaps, of intensive care medicine.
The crest is similar to the crests of ANZCA and RACP and shows a hand holding a Rod of Asclepius in front of a rising sun.
The supporters are distinctive avian fauna, representative of the two countries, the Lyrebird for Australia and the Tui (or Parson bird) for Aotearoa New Zealand.
The supporters stand on a compartment separated by water (The Tasman Sea) with Wattle and Silver Fern (respectively) at their feet, similar to the ANZCA Coat of Arms.
The motto ‘scientia sapientia cura’ was decided on after extensive consultation with the Fellowship, and a competition inviting suggestions. The Latin words are a translation of ‘caring with knowledge and wisdom’.
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Unit 201, 2 Porter Street, PRAHRAN VIC 3181,
Prahran VIC 3181, Australia
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