Accredited continuing education (ACE) release date: January 21, 2023 
SCCM Product Code: CON23OD
ACE expiration date: January 21, 2024 
Estimated time for activity completion: 158 hours MD, RNs, Advanced Practice, 106 hours Pharmacists, 159.25 hours of participation 

Content will continue to be added up to 30 days after the event. All content will be available by February 24, 2023.

Important Information

• If you view a session that does not include all presentations, please check back. All content will be available by February 24, 2023.
• Learners will not be able to claim CE/ACE credit or MOC points for sessions that do not include all presentations. Please check back to claim credit for these sessions. All content will be available by February 24, 2023.

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• Apply new knowledge and strategies to optimize the care of the critically ill patient as provided by the multiprofessional team
• Examine evidence-based medicine techniques to evaluate and improve patient care
• Review and integrate guidelines to measure performance and identify areas for further study and improvement

This continuing education activity is intended to meet the needs of all practitioners who care for critically ill patients, including:

• Advanced practice nurses
• Anesthesiologists
• Clinical nurse specialists
• Clinical pharmacists
• Critical care educators
• Dietitians
• Emergency department physicians
• Family practice physicians
• ICU medical directors
• ICU nurse managers
• Internists
• In-training professionals
• Neurologists
• Neurosurgeons
• Nurses, adult and pediatric
• Pharmacists
• Physicians
• Physician assistants
• Respiratory care practitioners
• Research scientists
• Trauma surgeons
• Other critical care practitioners

The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) supports recommendations that will promote lifelong learning through continuing education. SCCM promotes activities that encourage the highest quality in education that will enhance knowledge, competence, or performance in critical care practice. This activity will meet the following competencies: 

• Quality improvement and patient safety
• Patient- and family-centered care
• Clinical knowledge
• Communication
• Multiprofessionalism and teamwork
• Translation of research from bench to bedside

Physicians
Accreditation Statement: The Society of Critical Care Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Designation Statement: The Society of Critical Care Medicine designates this enduring educational activity for a maximum of 158 AMA PRA Category 1 credits™. Physicians should claim only those hours of credit that they actually spent in the educational activity.

The American Osteopathic Association (AOA) automatically recognizes AMA PRA Category 1 Credit ™ as AOA Category 2 credit. You may report by uploading your transcript via the AOA CME Self-Reporting Tool (Login Required) or by emailing attachments to cme@ostopathic.org

The ACCME credits that physicians earn from this activity will be submitted to ACCME’s CME Passport, a free, centralized web application where you can create a personalized account to view, track, and generate transcripts of your reported ACCME credit. Visit www.cmepassport.org to create your account.

Nurses
The 2023 SCCM Critical Care Congress activity has been approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider No. 8181, for up to 158 contact hours.  

Pharmacists
The Society of Critical Care Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. This educational activity provides up to 159.25 contact hours of continuing education credit.  

PLEASE NOTE: To claim Homestudy credits, credits from each session must be claimed by April 21, 2024.
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SCCM reports to a continuing pharmacy education (CPE) tracking service, CPE Monitor, which will authenticate and store data for completed CPE units received by pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. The tracking system will make CPE data for each participant available to the state boards of pharmacy where the participant is licensed or registered. After CPE units are processed by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) and the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP), pharmacists and pharmacy technicians will be able to log in to a comprehensive electronic profile to access information about their completed CPE. 

Physician Assistants
The American Academy of Physicians Assistants (AAPA) accepts certificates of participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) or a recognized state medical society. Physician assistants may receive a maximum of 158 Category 1 credits for completing this activity.

Successful completion of this accredited continuing education (ACE) activity, which includes in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 158 medical knowledge maintenance of certification (MOC) points in the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), American Board of Anesthesia (ABA), American Board of Surgery (ABS), and American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) MOC programs. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of ACE credits claimed for the activity. It is the ACE activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. ABS requires participants to self-report credit if audited. 

This course meets the requirements for MOC for up to 158 credits.

The MOC credits that physicians earn from this activity will be submitted to ACCME’s CME Passport, a free, centralized web application where you can create a personalized account to view, track, and generate transcripts of your reported ACCME credit. Visit www.cmepassport.org to create your account.

To provide due process in the evaluation and mediation of grievances concerning ACE activities, this grievance procedures policy was developed. Grievances may concern, but are not limited to, the awarding of credit for individual participation and/or registration fees issues.

• A written complaint or grievance should be submitted to the Education Department.
• The Education Department will attempt to resolve the grievance of the complainant.
• If the initial response is unsatisfactory to the complainant, the matter will be referred to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO)/Executive Vice President (EVP) for action.
• If the response from the CEO/EVP is unsatisfactory to the complainant, the matter will be referred to the SCCM Executive Committee. The ruling of the Executive Committee will be final.

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