Available courses

ACC-701: Critical Care Basics

ACC-701: Critical Care Basics

This module, ACC-701: Critical Care Basics, is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of complex pathophysiology, which forms the basis for the assessment and management of critically ill patients. It covers key areas such as tissue oxygenation, organ perfusion, ventilation and oxygenation, circulation, metabolic status and homeostasis regulation, and regulated and dysregulated immune responses. Importantly, this module serves as a solid foundation for further clinical studies in critical care.

The College of Offshore and Remote Medicine has made ACC701 a requirement for the MSc in Austere Critical Care training.

After the compulsory Entry Exam, students must complete the five mandatory topics before completing the final assessment. The evaluation has a formal MCQ test and an essay assignment.

ACC701 is a compulsory module for all MSc ACC students and has two elective topics (E1 and E2) to help students with limited experience in ECG interpretation and blood gas analysis. Please note that ECG and Blood Gas interpretation skills are essential to passing

 the final exam.

ACC-702: Intensive Care for Resource-limited Environments

ACC-702: Intensive Care for Resource-limited Environments

This module discusses the knowledge and competencies needed to provide intensive care for the critical casualty located in remote, austere and resource-limited environments.
Content areas include early assessment and management of the critical casualty, sepsis, acute kidney injury, airway and respiratory emergencies, advanced techniques for physical examination of the acute casualty, clinical decision making, communications, pharmacological options for the critical casualty, documentation and assessment-based management.

Additional topics will include managing resource limitations, resource allocation, triage, and ethical implications.


The ACC702 is an elective module for the MSc in Austere Critical Care training organized by the College of Offshore and Remote Medicine.

After the compulsory Entry Exam, students must complete the five mandatory modules before completing the final assessment. The evaluation has a formal MCQ test and an essay assignment.

Click here for the Module Specification.


ACC-703: Core Critical Care Skills

ACC-703: Core Critical Care Skills

This module provides the foundational knowledge and skills needed to conduct a structured clinical assessment for critically ill patients, practical skills to apply and interpret critical care monitoring, manage ongoing organ support,  and provide basic critical care interventions specifically for the casualty located in remote, austere and resource-limited environments. The module includes skill stations for structured patient assessment, clinical scenarios with organ support and complex monitoring, emergencies during mechanical ventilation, recognition, evaluation and management of circulatory collapse and complex metabolic deterioration. Delegates will practice the management of simulated clinical scenarios in teams, learning technical and non-technical skills.

This module has compulsory classroom education in Malta offered over seven days several times each year. You can find the dates on offer from the website below. You will be required to attend both the APUS and ICARE modules. 

ACC-704 Aeromedical and Critical Care Transport

ACC-704: Aeromedical and Critical Care Transport

This module provides the knowledge and skills needed to provide safe transport for critically ill patients both via land and aeromedical retrieval service. The module is based on the requirements of IBSC accredited CCT-P and  FP-C specialty exams. 

The content includes the knowledge and discussion of the principles of aeromedical transport, including its effects in physiology and the skills of preparing patients for transport as well as monitoring and managing critically ill patients within the confined space during transport.  The online module will give the theoretical background for further studies and learning technical and non-technical skills during subsequent classroom teaching and clinical placements.

ACC-705: Advanced Critical Care Skills for Austere Environments

ACC-705: Advanced Critical Care Skills for Austere Environments

This module provides the advanced knowledge and skills needed to conduct a structured clinical assessment for critically ill patient specifically for the casualty located in remote, austere and resource-limited environments. Practical hands on skills will be taught that apply and interpret critical care assessment and advanced monitoring, manage ongoing organ support,  and provide critical care interventions specifically for the casualty located in remote, austere and resource-limited environments. The module includes advanced skill practice during structured patient assessments, clinical scenarios with organ support and complex monitoring, procedural ultrasound, emergencies during mechanical ventilation, recognition, evaluation and management of circulatory collapse and complex metabolic deterioration. Delegates will practice the management of simulated clinical scenarios in teams, learning technical and non-technical skills.

This module has compulsory classroom education in Malta offered over seven days several times each year. You can find the dates on offer from the website below. You will be required to attend both the APUS and ICARE modules. 

ACC-706: Intensive Care in Tropical Environments

ACC-706: Intensive Care in Tropical Environments

This module aims to introduce the concepts of the practice of intensive care medicine specifically for tropical medicine ailments and diseases as well as providing critical care in remote and austere conditions. It begins with the top ten infectious diseases found in tropical regions and expands to cover various treatments and procedures that are needed whilst working in tropical environments.

ACC-707: Leadership and Management in Critical Care Practice

ACC-707: Leadership and Management in Critical Care Practice

This module reviews the challenges of leading a critical care delivery team, from the strategic planning, to team building and management, resource management and allocation and decision making. We discuss human factors and their considerations in avoiding incidents and reducing errors. 

ACC-708: Clinical Practicum for the Austere Critical Care Practice

ACC-708: Clinical Practicum for the Austere Critical Care Practice

Candidates are requested to submit a logbook of their supervised critical care clinical practice, suitable to demonstrate their clinical competency in austere critical care.

You can participate in our supervised clinical practice placement at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (Tanzania) or choose an accredited training site and demonstrate equivalent training experience.

This module will provide guidance of how to achieve the required training and outlines the submission process for the logbook.

ACC-709: Research Methods

ACC-709: Research Methods

This module is designed to engage the student in MQF level 7 research in Healthcare, specifically Critical Care. To provide participants with the necessary knowledge and skills to get started in level 7 research. It will focus on the following:

  1. Developing an understanding of the theories of science. methodological views and paradigms
  2. Understanding the process of research and knowledge production in a selected healthcare topic (including identifying a suitable problem statement and research questions, relevant academic and professional literature, and appropriate methods
  3. Appraising the ontological and epistemological basis of research in healthcare practice

ACC-710: MSc Degree Project

ACC-710: MSc Degree Project

This is a capstone project, which requires and enables candidates to produce a comprehensive integrative piece of work incorporating the developed knowledge and skills from the programme into a final dissertation (20,000 words). Focusing on blending theory with practice in a specific professional context. An in-depth investigation of a research problem rooted in theoretical frameworks and concepts.

DHS-801: Leadership in Global Health

DHS-801 Leadership in Global Health

In this module, candidates will begin by developing a detailed understanding of traditional and contemporary theories of leadership and management, these theories are critically examined by the candidates who will critically review their assumptions about leadership within healthcare both separately through their own thinking and collectively in group discussions. This will be achieved through exploring and analysing key leadership issues in health and social care practice, with the emphasis on challenging and debating contemporary theory and practice, focusing upon aspects of collective leadership and followership in the context of leading large-scale projects, implementing and managing change. Candidates will challenge traditional views and work to identify both barriers to change and strategies for successful project delivery and implementation to identify and implement quality improvements and organisational change; candidates will examine in detail and discuss project management, project implementation strategies tools and quality management methodologies such as lean and six sigma together with contemporary quality improvement tools. Throughout the module, candidates will reflect upon the skills, behaviours and techniques required to lead a team within a clinical environment, including the role of clinical supervision, governance frameworks and personal and professional development.

DHS-802: Performance, Risk and Quality in Modern Healthcare Systems

DHS-803: Medical Ethics in Global Health

DHS 804 Research methodology, design, and data analysis challenges in a global environment.

This module explores the intricacies and complexities associated with conducting research in a global context.

Throughout this module, students will critically examine the fundamental principles of research methodology, including sampling techniques, research design, and data analysis, while emphasizing their application in a global setting. They will gain insights into the multifaceted challenges of cross-cultural research, addressing issues such as cultural biases, language barriers, and varying research norms and practices.

This module equips students with data analysis skills tailored to global research projects. Participants will learn to navigate diverse data sources and apply appropriate statistical and qualitative analysis techniques to draw meaningful conclusions.


DHS-805 Introduction to Academic and Medical Writing

DHS-805 Introduction to Academic and Medical Writing

The overarching goal of the module is to help students develop the academic and technical writing; to gain an understanding of the differences between medical vs academic writing, undergraduate vs master's vs doctoral writing, and build an awareness of important resources to guide academic writing such as PRISMA.

DHS-806: Doctoral Thesis

DHS 806: Doctoral Thesis

The thesis represents the heart of the doctoral programme, an undertaking of research during which candidates create a piece of scholarship that effectively illustrates the knowledge and skills acquired throughout the programme to produce novel insight in the student's field of study. 

The thesis is expected to represent a substantial contribution to the relevant area of knowledge, at a level of quality suitable for publication in nationally or internationally recognised peer-reviewed journals. The research should be designed with the explicit purpose of disseminating the student's findings within their respective field. The resulting thesis should be between 55,000 words and 60,000 words.


PhD workshop 2: Research methods

PhD Workshop 3: Academic writing and research dissemination

DHS-805 Introduction to Academic and Medical Writing

The overarching goal of the module is to help students develop the academic and technical writing; to gain an understanding of the differences between medical vs academic writing, undergraduate vs master's vs doctoral writing, and build an awareness of important resources to guide academic writing such as PRISMA.

PhD workshop 1: Research ethics

PhD