Overview of Intensive Care Medicine (ICM) ST3

The Intensive Care Medicine National Recruitment Office (ICMNRO), part of NHS England based in the Midlands, coordinates the nationally agreed process for recruitment to Intensive Care Medicine (ST3).

This responsibility is carried out on behalf of the College of Intensive Care Medicine throughout England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Working closely with the College of Intensive Care Medicine, we ensure the recruitment process is quality assured and suited for this stage of training.

ICMNRO is available during the office hours of Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm (UK BST/GMT).

To contact us, please use the Freshdesk support portal.

ICMNRO understand the importance of the selection process for an applicant's future career pathway.

We would like to politely remind applicants of their responsibility to conduct themselves in a professional manner as outlined in the Good Medical Practice when in correspondence with ICMNRO team members.

Anonymous data from the recruitment process including scores awarded and feedback collected, will be used to evaluate, and refine the national selection process. Data may be correlated with anonymised scores from outcome measures during your future training such as success in professional examinations and ARCP outcome data as you progress through training.

Recruitment to ICM training programmes is conducted once a year, for August commencement.

Engagement event

The medical leads - Robert Docking and Andy Martin are hosting an engagement event for doctors who are applying for higher specialist training in Intensive Care Medicine, to discuss the application process and answer questions from attendees, the date for this event is Thursday 12 November 2026, 7pm to 8pm.

Book a place at the 2026 ICM ST3 Application Engagement webinar