Teach the Teacher Course for Anaesthetics & ICM Doctors

Teaching is central to anaesthetics and intensive care — theatre teaching, simulation, and the close supervision of trainees. A Teach the Teacher course formalises those skills and adds strong, evidenced material to your portfolio and CV.

For every Anaesthetics domain and a calculator for your own total, see Anaesthetics ST4 self-assessment scoring and calculator. For intensive care, see ICM ST3 self-assessment scoring and calculator.

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How anaesthetics and ICM score teaching

Anaesthetic and ICM training is built around one-to-one teaching and simulation, and you will be expected to supervise and teach throughout. Formal training in teaching demonstrates that you have developed these skills deliberately — valuable for ARCP, for educational roles, and for your longer-term consultant portfolio. Erudical enrolment also includes a place at NMERC 2026, where an oral or poster presentation can score in the presentations domain of specialty applications that score presentations (how presentations are scored).

Both score a teaching course directly. Anaesthetics ST4, Domain 6 (Teaching), awards 1 point for having “attended a Teach the Teachers course, Generic Instructors Course or similar”; the 2-point tier requires organising or delivering teaching, and 3 requires a postgraduate certificate in education. ICM ST3, Domain 6 (Teaching skills, scored 0–4), awards 1 point for having “attended a basic teaching methodology course”; 2 requires providing regular teaching or instructor certification, and 3 requires over half a formal teaching qualification.

For Anaesthetics ST4, the guidance says attendance at a Teach the Teachers course “can count in either domain 6 or domain 9 but not both”. Domain 6’s 1-point tier is also met by “some experience in formal teaching for health professionals”, so if you already score there, the course adds nothing in Domain 6. You can count it in Domain 9 (Continuing Professional Development) instead, as one educational event of 1 day duration, uploading both certificates and the programme for the day. There it moves you up a tier only if it is the event you are missing for 2 or 3 points. Attending NMERC can be a separate 1-day event in the same domain: the guidance says “Any meeting, symposium, or conference relevant to anaesthesia or ICM may be credited here”, and the panel decides whether NMERC qualifies. Domain 9 still applies for August 2027 entry.

For ICM ST3, the point is either/or: teaching healthcare professionals or medical students “with evidence of formal, positive feedback” earns the same 1 point, so the course adds a point only if you currently score 0 in Domain 6. ICM names “A certificate of attendance or completion of teaching methodology course” as acceptable evidence. For ICM, the Erudical course is training in teaching methods only.

So the course is worth at most 1 point for each specialty. An attended course cannot go higher in either teaching domain: every tier above it needs you to be delivering or organising teaching, or to hold a university award.

Figures are from the 2026 self-assessment documents; the 2027 versions for Anaesthetics ST4 and ICM ST3 were not published when checked on 10 October 2026. See our teaching points by specialty guide for where a course scores directly.

What the Erudical course covers

The Erudical Teach the Teacher course is a live, tutor-led day and a self-paced course of over 12 hours covering adult learning theory, session design, delivery, feedback and evaluation — applied to theatre and simulation teaching.

How it strengthens your portfolio

Keep your certificate and pair it with a reflection on a theatre or simulation teaching session. Training plus applied reflection is exactly what supervisors and ARCP panels look for.

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Last updated: 12th October 2026