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The Alfred Intensive Care
Academic Centre

Patient care, education and research

The Alfred ICU is one of Australia’s largest intensive care units, leading innovation in critical care treatment, education, and research, and caring for all Victorians with life-threatening conditions.

The Academic Centre is the focal point of The Alfred ICU education and research programs, which aim to improve clinical outcomes, by promoting active, integrated, and patient focused knowledge generation, dissemination, and translation in intensive care medicine.

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About the Alfred ICU

The Alfred's ICU is one of Australia's leading intensive care units, treating thousands of patients each year and providing care for patients with life threatening conditions.

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Education & Research

The Alfred Intensive Care Academic Centre is internationally recognised as a centre of excellence in research. Since 2011, The Alfred ICU has produced more than 85 publications annually.

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International Programs

The Alfred Intensive Care Academic Centre now offers bespoke educational courses tailored to specific healthcare systems.  

International Education

Upcoming courses

Critically Ill Airway (CIA) - May 2025

22 May 2025 — 23 May 2025

The Alfred Simulation Centre

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Victorian Primary Examination Course for CICM (VPECC) - June 2025

12 June 2025 — -

The Alfred - Innovation & Education Hub

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Advanced Life Support (ALS2) - June 2025

17 June 2025 — 18 June 2025

The Alfred - Innovation & Education Hub

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Advanced Mechanical Ventilation Conference plus Waveforms and Physiotherapy Symposium  

23 July 2025 — 25 July 2025

The Alfred - Innovation & Education Hub and Park Hyatt, Melbourne

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Advanced Life Support (ALS2) - July 2025

29 July 2025 — 30 July 2025

The Alfred - Innovation & Education Hub

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Basic Assessment & Support in Intensive Care - August 2025

5 August 2025 — 6 August 2025

The Alfred - Innovation & Education Hub

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Latest news

Celebrating 60 Years of ICU at Alfred Health

21 May 2025
Please join us as we celebrate the 60 year anniversary of the Alfred ICU which opened in 1964.

It’s Clinical Trials Day 2025

20 May 2025
It’s Clinical Trials Day 2025 — a time to recognise the vital role of clinical trials and the people who make them possible: researchers, clinicians, allied health professionals, patients, and families.

Congratulations Georgie Callaghan

16 May 2025
Winner of the Best Oral Presentation at the 2025 DonateLife Donation and Transplantation Conference, held in Melbourne May 14-15, 2025

Celebrating the Care, Skill and Heart of our Nurses

12 May 2025
Today is a dedicated day to acknowledge the remarkable contribution of our nurses.