Want to help your trainees in medicine?

Want to teach acute medicine?

Join our IMPACT faculty! 

The IMPACT course introduces the principles and practice of acute medical care and related knowledge, skills, understanding and attitudes.  

The two-day course is aimed at IMT1/2/3 doctors in acute medical specialties including Acute Medicine, Acute Care Common Stem (ACCS) and General Internal Medicine. 

It is open to participants at FY2 level who can demonstrate a particular interest in pursuing a career in acute medical specialties. Before they can attend the course, FY2 doctors must have completed at least eight months’ practice in acute medical specialties in their FY2 year. 

IMPACT enables trainee doctors to assess and treat acutely unwell patients and understand when to ask for help. The course provides key point presentations, workshops and hands-on skills stations. Critically ill patient teaching is given by experienced instructors in a supportive environment. 

IMPACT has been successfully running throughout the UK since 2004. Designed by the Federation of Royal Colleges of Physicians of the UK and the Royal College of Anaesthetists, this course is endorsed by the Society for Acute Medicine. 

Want to teach on an IMPACT course?

If you’re interested in becoming a member of faculty for IMPACT, you need to meet the following criteria: 

1. Be a consultant, associate specialist or specialist training registrar (ST3 or above) in acute medicine or related specialities, with a MRCP, FRCA, FRCS (A&E) or equivalent higher degree in medicine. 
2. In some cases, and at the discretion of the course director, a suitable specialist nurse or allied healthcare professional (e.g. Resuscitation Officer) practising acute medicine can contribute to IMPACT. The majority of IMPACT faculty should be doctors. 
3. Faculty must have undergone instructor training prior to teaching on IMPACT. This can be a Generic Instructor Course, an approved advanced life support course, a Train the Trainer course or an IMPACT Instructor Training Day. 
4. Ideally, faculty should have attended an IMPACT course as an observer.  

Want to run an IMPACT course?

A licence to run the IMPACT course is required.

For this you need to be a consultant or associate specialist in acute medicine, general medicine, anaesthetics, intensive care or accident & emergency medicine who has documented certification of instructor status with advanced life support courses such as Advanced Life Support, CCrISP, ILS, ALS, PALS

or

documented successful attendance at education training days such as generic instructor course (GIC) or “training the trainers” course and/or attendance at an IMPACT Instructor Training Day

and

observed and taught on one established IMPACT Course at an established IMPACT course centre and been signed off by the Director of that course as being a suitable person to become a Course Director.

If you would like more information on becoming a faculty member for IMPACT or if you wish to apply for a licence to run an IMPACT course, please contact the IMPACT Central Office at impactcentral@rcpsg.ac.uk