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Care of the Critically Ill Surgical Patient (CCrISP®)

CCrISP® teaches doctors to adopt a structured and comprehensive approach to managing surgical patients, to recognise the deteriorating patient and determine which patients are most at risk.

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  • 2026 Registration opening dates
  • Registration platform
  • Course objectives
  • Eligibility
  • Course schedule
  • Current fees
  • Waitlist
  • Cancellation policy
  • How to withdraw from a course
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2026 Registration opening dates

Registrations for 2026 courses will open at 10:00am AEDT* on the following dates:

RACS Fellows, SETs, and SIMGs: Monday 10 November 2025

General release (all eligible applicants): Monday 24 November 2025

*Time zones for release:

ACT, NSW, TAS, VIC 10:00am
Aotearoa New Zealand (AoNZ) 12:00pm
QLD 9:00am
NT 8:30am
SA 9:30am
WA 7:00am

Fees for both Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand will remain at 2025 fee prices.

Registration platform

  • Sign in to eHub 
  • New to eHub? create a new account.
  • Forgot your password? Use the “reset password” feature instead of creating a new account.
  • Complete the registration form
  • Select pass
  • Agree to the Terms and Conditions
  • Make payment via card or PayPal

A tax invoice will be sent to you by email once payment has been processed and your registration confirmed

Tips for registration:

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  • Processing may take longer during high registration volumes – please be patient
  • If you do not pay for the event in the shopping cart within 15 minutes, you will have to go through the registration process again.
  • Your spot in the event is not reserved just by adding the event to the shopping cart.
  • View Training & Services Platform (eHub) Quick Reference Guide or watch How to Video
  • View FAQs (PDF 346.26KB)

Course objectives

By completing this course, you will be able to:

  • adopt a structured, comprehensive approach to managing surgical patients
  • judge which patients are at most risk and plan to reduce their risk of adverse outcomes
  • recognise the deteriorating patient and intervene to correct the problem
  • acknowledge the importance of communication in managing surgical patients.

Eligibility

To register, applicants must be post-graduate year (PGY) 3+ registered medical graduates (e.g. MBBS). Care of the Critically Ill Surgical Patient CCrISP® caters to:

  • Junior doctors aspiring to a career in surgery
  • Doctors training or specialising in intensive care, emergency medicine, anaesthetics, peri-operative care, obstetrics and gynaecology, surgery and general practice
  • SET Trainees of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (training requirement)
  • Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Trainees (training requirement).

Course schedule

Please visit the 2026 CCrISP Course Schedule (PDF 53.88KB).

Current fees

  • Australia – AU $4,130 (including GST)
  • New Zealand – NZ $4,620 (including GST)

Australian SETs who are mandated to complete the CCrISP course are exempt from GST on Australian courses. Courses conducted in Aotearoa New Zealand will be invoiced in NZ dollars, regardless of residential country of applicant.

Course fee includes:

  • CCrISP® course 4th Edition manual
  • online modules and resources
  • certificate upon successful completion
  • catering.

Fees for both Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand will remain at 2025 fee prices.

Waitlist

If a course is full, you register to be placed on the waitlist.

Our team will contact you if a place becomes available.

Cancellation policy

Cancellation/withdrawal by participant:

  • Withdrawal more than 10 weeks prior to course: 95% refund of course fee
  • Withdrawal less than 10 weeks prior to course: 50% refund of course fee
  • Withdrawal less than 6 weeks prior to course: no refund of course fee

If you cannot attend the course due to sickness or bereavement, the refund amount will be assessed on a case-by-case basis. Please email [email protected] as soon as possible.

  • Transfers to alternative courses are not permitted, and will be subject to the applicable cancellation fee
  • Refunds will be refunded by the payment method used at time of purchase
  • Refunds for payments made by PayPal more than 6 months ago cannot be refunded. We will contact you for an alternative refund method.

Cancellation by RACS:

A full refund will be issued if a course is cancelled by RACS.

 

As of November 2025.


How to withdraw from a course

Login to eHub

  • Click your profile name (top right corner of page)
  • Click My Registrations to view your enrolled courses
  • Select CANCEL for the course you wish to withdraw from
  • You will receive an email notification confirming your withdrawal. Refunds, if eligible, will be processed according to the cancellation policy above.

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T: +61 3 9249 1235

E: [email protected] 

Aotearoa New Zealand

T: +61 4 385 5690

E: [email protected] 

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