In 2023 we will continue to contribute to the green transition, with environmentally sustainable education. Our edge-cutting hybrid programmes will boost digital learning with integration of skills through new technologies, fellowships and hands-on activities around key events.

In this context ESICM has created two complementary practical training tracks to ensure the full development of competencies required in Intensive Care. 

The first practical training track includes hands-on and simulations completed by fellowships conducted in European Centres of Expertise in Intensive Care.

The second practical training track immerses learners in realistic ICU settings via 2D and 3D Virtual Reality created by European ICU Expert Centres. Here learners meet virtually a team of international experts and they can experience clinical bedside cases, with pathophysiological and technical deep-dive sessions.  This dual approach assures maximum knowledge retention and skills development for our Intensive Care Community.

We hereby acknowledge all centres and experts for their invaluable support and help with the development and delivery of Intensive Care training in today’s challenging context. Together we are Intensive Care!

Virtual Reality Experience Centre: Dupuytren Teaching Hospital, Medical-surgical Intensive Care Unit, Limoges, France

Local experts: Philippe VIGNON and his local team

External expert: Antoine HERPAIN, Experimental Laboratory of Intensive Care, Erasme University Hospital – HUB, ULB, Department of Intensive Care, St-Pierre University Hospital, ULB, Brussels, Belgium

Virtual Reality Experience Centre: University Hospital Ghent, Belgium 

Local experts:

• Jerina BOELENS
• Martha BORKOWSKA
• Veerle BOSSCHEM
• Kimberley CLAUS
• Liesbet DE BUS
• Nathalie DE COOMAN
• Thomas DE CORTE
• Jan DE WAELE
• Isabel LEROUX-ROELS
• Matthijs OYAERT
• Nick VEROUGSTRAETE

External experts: 

• Enrique CASTRO-SANCHEZ ~ Brunel University London; Imperial Colleg London, United Kingdom)
• Andrew CONWAY MORRIS ~ University of Cambridge; Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom
• Nathan D NIELSEN ~ University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, United States
• Bryan O’FARRELL ~ Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, Pharmacy Dept, London, United Kingdom
• Jeroen SCHOUTEN ~ Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
  

Virtual Reality Experience Centre: Humanitas Research Hospital & Mario Luzzatto Simulation Centre, Humanitas University, Rozzano (Milano), Italy

Local experts:

• Stefania BRUSA
• Giacomo COPPALINI
• Massimiliano GRECO
• Angelo MILANI
• Sofia SPANO

External expert:

• Marta Velia ANTONINI, ECMO Team – AUSL Romagna; Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences, University of Modena & Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
• Federico BARRA, “Maggiore della Carità” University Hospital; SIMNOVA Simulation Center, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy
• Victoria Anne BENNETT, Queen Victoria Hospital, United Kingdom
• Carole BOULANGER, Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom
• Lennie DERDE, University Medical Centre Utrecht, The Netherlands
• Jonathan DOWNHAM, United Hospitals Birmingham, United Kingdom
• Frantisek DUSKA, Charles University and FNKV University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
• Alessandro GALAZZI, Foundation IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
• Martina GASSNER, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
• Patricia MCCREADY, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom
• Johannes MELLINGHOFF, University of Brighton, United Kingdom
• Stefan SCHALLER, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

Virtual Reality Experience Centre: University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium

Local experts:

• Dieter DAUWE
• Leen VERCAEMST (EuroElso)
• Local team

Virtual Reality Experience Centre: Hôpital Saint-Louis, APHP. Université de Paris, Paris, France

Local experts:

• Elie AZOULAY
• Julien LE ROY
• Virginie SOUPPART

External experts:

• Carole BOULANGER, Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom
• Liesbet DE BUS, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
• Cathy McKENZIE, Pharmacy and Critical Care, University Hospital Southampton, Southampton S016, London, United Kingdom
• David NORA, São Francisco Xavier Hospital, Centro Hospitalar De Lisboa Ocidental, Lisbon, Portugal; NOVA Medical School, CHRC, New University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
• Pedro POVOA, São Francisco Xavier Hospital, Centro Hospitalar De Lisboa Ocidental, Lisbon, Portugal, NOVA Medical School, CEDOC, New University of Lisbon, Portugal,
• Jeroen SCHOUTEN, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Virtual Reality Experience Centre: Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Germany

Local experts:

• Claudia SPIES
• Stefan SCHALLER
• Oliver HUNSICKER
• Agustin LIOTTA
• Frederike HARTMANN

External experts:

• Adrian WONG, King’s College Hospital, United Kingdom
• Ahmed ZAHER, Oxford University hospitals NHS foundation trust, United Kingdom

Virtual Reality Experience Centre: Medical Intensive Care Unit, Bicêtre Hospital, AP-HP | Paris-Saclay University, France

Local experts:

• Xavier MONNET
• Christopher LAI
• Local team

External experts:

• Karima ALOUAZEN, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland
• Michelle CHEW, Linköping University Hospital, Linköping, Sweden
• Antonio MESSINA, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center – IRCCS, Rozzano (Milano), Italy

Virtual Reality Experience Centre: University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium

Local expert: Greet HERMANS

External experts:

• Guillaume CARTEAUX, APHP – Henri Mondor University Hospital & Paris Est Créteil University, France
• Rémi COUDROY, CHU de Poitiers & Université de Poitiers, France
• Martin DRES, APHP. Sorbonne University & Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, France
• Lise PIQUILLOUD IMBODEN, Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland

Virtual Reality Experience Centre: Bicêtre Hospital, Medical Intensive Care Unit, Paris-Saclay University Hospitals, France

External experts:

• Karima ALOUAZEN, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland
• Silvia DE ROSA, Centre for Medical Sciences – CISMed, University of Trento, Italy
• Marlies OSTERMANN, Guy’s & St Thomas Hospital, London, United Kingdom
• Thomas RIMMELÉ, Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Edouard Herriot Hospital, Lyon, France
• Antoine SCHNEIDER, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland

Fellowship Centres & Mentors

• Contrà San Bortolo 16 Ospedale, Vicenza, Italy – Silvia DE ROSA and the local team
• Galway University Hospital, Galway, Ireland – Bairbre MCNICHOLAS and the local team
• Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium – Eric HOSTE, Hannah SCHAUBROECK, Wim VANDENBERGHE and the local team
• Guy’s & St Thomas Hospital, London, United Kingdom – Marlies OSTERMANN and the local team
• Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Lyon, France – Thomas RIMMELÉ and the local team
• Medizinische Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria – Michael JOANNIDIS and the local team
• South-Pest Central Hospital, Budapest, Hungary – Ilona BOBEK and the local team
• University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany – Melanie MEERSCH, Alex ZARBOCK and the local team

Fellowship Centres & Mentors

• Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Mitte, Germany – Stefan SCHALLER, Steffen WEBER-CARSTENS, Martin RUß and the local team
• Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, Spain – Ricard FERRER ROCA, Andrés F. PACHECO REYES and the local team
• Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France – Alain COMBES, Matthieu SCHMIDT and the local team
• Medical University of Vienna, Austria – Peter SCHELLONGOWSKI, Thomas STAUDINGER and the local team

Fellowship Centres & Mentors

• Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Mitte, Germany – Stefan SCHALLER, Steffen WEBER-CARSTENS and the local team
• Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden – Olav ROOYACKERS and the local team
• University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium – Michael CASAER, Jan GUNST and the local team