Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine subspecialty training: curricula mapping guide

This guide is intended for use by anaesthetists in training who are doing sub-specialty training in PHEM. It demonstrates the shared capabilities and cross-referencing between the two curricula.

PHEM Theme

2021 Anaesthetics Curriculum Domains and Capabilities

Generic Professional Capabilities
  • All 7 Generic Professional Capability Domains

 

Subspecialty Specific Theme

  PHEM Theme 2021 Anaesthetics Curriculum Domains and Capabilities

1

Working in Emergency Medical Systems
  • SIA Transfer Medicine

2

Providing Pre-hospital Emergency Medical Care
  • SIA Trauma and Stabilisation
  • SIA Transfer Medicine
  • Stage 3 Resuscitation and Transfer
  • Stage 3 Perioperative Medicine and Health Promotion: Capabilities E, F and G
  • Stage 3 General Anaesthesia: Capabilities D, E, J and O
  • Stage 3 Pain
  • Stage 3 Procedural Sedation
  • Stage 3 Intensive Care Medicine

3

Using Pre-hospital equipment

 

4

Supporting Rescue and Extrication
  • SIA Trauma and Stabilisation

5

Supporting Safe Patient Transfer
  • SIA Transfer Medicine
  • Stage 3 Resuscitation and Transfer

6

Supporting Emergency Preparedness and Response
  • SIA Trauma and Stabilisation

 

 Cross-cutting Themes

  PHEM Theme 2021 Anaesthetics Curriculum Domains and Capabilities

A

Operational Practice
  • Generic Professional Capability Domains
  • SIA Transfer Medicine

B

Team Resource Management
  • Generic Professional Capability Domains
  • SIA Trauma and Stabilisation
  • SIA Transfer Medicine
  • Stage 3 Resuscitation and Transfer
  • Stage 3 Perioperative Medicine and Health Promotion: Capability G

C

Clinical Governance
  • Generic Professional Capability Domains

 

PHEM subspecialty training experience will provide evidence that allows approval of Stage 3 Resuscitation and Transfer, SIA Transfer Medicine and SIA Trauma and Stabilisation HALOs. It will also contribute to Stage 3 Perioperative Medicine, General Anaesthesia, Pain, Procedural Sedation and Intensive Care Medicine HALOs.

Doctors undertaking PHEM training may use their Training Assessment Panel outcome document to evidence individual capabilities within HALOs or domain HALOs as required.

f you would like to contact us, you can email the Anaesthetics Curriculum and Equivalence Team on training@rcoa.ac.uk or call on 020 7092 1550.

Please let us know what you think. If you feel the information on this page could be improved, please get in touch with us.

Last reviewed: 1 February 2023
Next review due: 31 January 2024

Further guidance

Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine Training
Information on PHEM training, the PHEM curriculum, recruitment to PHEM training, and College support for those undertaking PHEM training

2021 Curriculum learning syllabus: stage 3 SIAs
Learning outcomes, key capabilities, examples of evidence, and suggested supervision levels for all domains of learning in stage 3 special interest areas.

Stage 3 training
Guidance on progressing through and completing stage 3 of the anaesthetic training, including the Special Interest Areas.