Intensive care medicine training in China: specialty or subspecialty

It remains controversial whether the intensive care medicine should be acknowledged as a primary specialty or a subspecialty of other specialties. However, the training model of intensive care medicine has gradually shifted from the subspecialty model to the specialty model worldwide. While in China, we have observed a trend toward specialty training model despite the fact that multiple models co-exist in the field of intensive care medicine. The specialty training model and the subspecialty model will seek for collaboration and win-win situation. Key words: Intensive care; Medicine; Specialty