Introducing the ESBICM Global Critical Care Faculty Network: Where Evidence, Education, and Future Leaders Converge.
The ESBICM Global Critical Care Faculty Network
A community of clinicians, educators, and researchers building the next chapter of critical care education — together, and for all.
Why this exists
Critical care medicine has never had more evidence. New trials, updated guidelines, and emerging technologies arrive almost every week. And yet at the bedside — where decisions are made in seconds and outcomes are shaped in hours — the gap between what is known and what is done remains stubbornly wide.
Closing that gap is not the work of any single specialty, or any single country. It takes physicians who can read a trial and translate it for the ward round. It takes nurses who carry care bundles from a guideline into living practice. It takes educators who make complex ideas simple, and trainees who bring the lived experience of today’s ICU into tomorrow’s curriculum.
The ESBICM Global Critical Care Faculty Network is built around that conviction. It brings together the people who do this work — across roles, across borders — and gives them a structured platform to do more of it.
A few words about ESBICM
The Educational Society of Bedside Intensive Care Medicine (ESBICM) was founded in 2018 with a single principle that still shapes everything we do: critical care education should be freely accessible and affordable to all.
In the years since, ESBICM has built one of the most widely accessed open critical care education platforms in the world.
• The ICU Channel, our YouTube platform, has crossed 60 million views with learners in more than 143 countries. It was honoured with the YouTube Silver Button in 2024.
• The MechVent Course — our flagship structured certificate programme on mechanical ventilation — runs for six months and is open to doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists, and paramedics.
• Dr. Ankur Gupta, Founder President of ESBICM, is the National Representative of India at the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) for the 2025–2027 term.
• Our Discussion Board, ICU e-Library, and e-books are used daily by clinicians across continents.
The Faculty Network is the natural next step in this work. It is how we scale what one team in one city began into a global community of educators, researchers, and emerging leaders — all contributing to the same mission.
The three faculties
Members join the network in one of three faculties, chosen according to where their strengths lie and how they wish to contribute. Applicants select a primary faculty at application; a secondary faculty may be added if their work meaningfully spans more than one.
Research Faculty
For those who appraise the evidence and bring it back to the bedside.
Research Faculty members are the intellectual backbone of the network. They lead structured Journal Clubs, synthesise landmark trials and meta-analyses into practical summaries, interpret international guidelines for real-world implementation, and contribute to ESBICM’s growing evidence library.
Suited to: senior clinicians, academics, research nurses, and others with a strong grasp of study design, statistics, and guideline interpretation.
Educator Faculty
For those who teach — and do it well.
Educator Faculty members are the voice of ESBICM. They deliver masterclasses, webinars, and structured lectures; build teaching modules and clinical algorithms; and turn complex topics — advanced ventilation, hemodynamic management, nursing care bundles, pre-hospital protocols — into clear, memorable instruction.
Suited to: experienced clinicians, senior nursing officers, paramedic instructors, and educators with a track record in medical teaching, public speaking, and mentorship.
NextGen Faculty
For the rising generation — already contributing, ready to be heard.
NextGen Faculty members carry the pulse of real-world practice. They share case reports and clinical vignettes, ECGs, imaging and ultrasound clips, and the clinical pearls that emerge from daily rounds. This faculty exists to give residents, fellows, junior nurses, and paramedics a respected global platform from which to build an academic identity early in their careers.
Suited to: residents, fellows, trainees, junior nurses, and paramedics with a genuine desire to learn, share, and contribute.
What Faculty Network Means
Members commit to contributing — through teaching, writing, reviewing, or sharing clinical material — in keeping with the role of their chosen faculty. In return, they gain:
• Recognition on a respected international platform alongside colleagues from over 140 countries.
• A direct hand in shaping how critical care is understood, taught, and practised at the bedside, worldwide.
• Multidisciplinary collaboration with peers across roles, specialties, and borders — for academic projects, publications, and programmes.
• A formal Certificate of Faculty Recognition, verifiable through the ESBICM Member Panel.
• Access to the Faculty Network’s working channels and the colleagues who use them.
We do not measure contribution by volume. We measure it by quality, consistency, and the integrity of the work.
Who we welcome
The Faculty Network is open to qualified critical care professionals worldwide — doctors and nurses. We ask only that applicants be:
• Currently practising, training, or actively teaching in critical care or a closely related field.
• Genuinely interested in contributing — not simply in being listed.
• Holders of an active ESBICM Membership, which is free of cost.
ESBICM has always been global in audience. The Faculty Network is how we become global in voice. International applicants are warmly welcomed and encouraged.
How to apply
The selection process is structured to keep the Faculty deliberate, focused, and of consistent quality.
- Log in to your ESBICM Member Panel.
- From the menu on the left, select Faculty Network.
- Choose your primary faculty — Research, Educator, or NextGen. A secondary faculty is optional.
- Submit your application with the details requested on the page.
Shortlisted applicants will be invited for a brief conversation — by Google Meet or telephone — to align expectations and discuss contribution before formal induction.- On approval, members receive a Certificate of Faculty Recognition and access to the network’s working channels.
An active ESBICM Membership is required to apply.
An invitation
This is a working community. It asks for time, thought, and considered contribution. In return, it offers the rare experience of being part of something that genuinely changes how critical care is taught and practised — not in one hospital, not in one country, but across many.
If that sounds like work worth doing, we would be glad to have you with us.
— Dr. Ankur Gupta Founder President, ESBICM
National Representative of India, ESICM (2025–2027)