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ACCS Hub — your home for Acute Care Common Stem training in South East Scotland.

For ACCS Anaesthesia, ACCS Emergency Medicine, and ACCS Acute Internal Medicine trainees rotating through SESSA placements.

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Whether anaesthesia is your home specialty or you're rotating through with us as part of your EM or AIM programme, this page brings together everything you need: programme structure, curriculum, portfolio, key contacts, and quick links.

Quick links

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National ACCS site

Curriculum, learning outcomes, EPAs, college guidance.

www.accs.ac.uk

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Welcome Newsletter

Starting ACCS Anaesthesia — sent in August.

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ARCP Checklist

Evidence requirements for your annual review.

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Rota Hub

Current SESSA Core & ACCS rota.

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Programme structure

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ACCS is a 24-month training programme covering four acute specialties: Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Anaesthesia, and Intensive Care Medicine. Six months in each.

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What ACCS looks like across two years

Block Specialty Typical focus
Months 1–6 Acute Internal Medicine or Emergency Medicine Acute medical assessment, ward-based acute care, decision-making under pressure.
Months 7–12 Emergency Medicine or Acute Internal Medicine ED assessment, trauma, resuscitation, rapid decision-making.
Months 13–18 Anaesthesia (Novice) Initial Assessment of Competence (IAC), procedural sedation HALO, anaesthesia logbook.
Months 19–24 Intensive Care Medicine Critical care, organ support, end-of-life care, multidisciplinary working.

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Order varies by home specialty. ACCS Anaesthesia trainees typically start with their non-anaesthesia blocks and finish with anaesthesia + ICM. ACCS EM and ACCS AIM trainees follow patterns set by their home programme.

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Curriculum & portfolio

Learning Outcomes (LOs)

The ACCS curriculum is built around 11 Learning Outcomes: