Accredited continuing education (ACE) release date: June 29, 2023 
SCCM Product Code: DEWEB23CON
ACE expiration date: June 30, 2024 
Estimated time for activity completion: 1.0 hours

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• Describe implicit bias
• Explain implicit bias in diagnosing patients
• Describe ways to mitigate implicit bias in diagnosing patients with suspected sepsis

• Advance practice providers
• Clinical nurse specialists
• In-training practitioners
• Medical directors
• Nurse educators
• Nurse managers
• Nurses
• Physicians
• Research scientists

This enduring activity will explore how to mitigate implicit bias in patients and assist in diagnosing patients with sepsis.

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: 

• Patient Care
• Interpersonal communication skills
• Professionalism

You can access the course materials; complete your evaluation; and claim your ACE credit by logging in to your MySCCM account with your SCCM Customer ID and password, then clicking on the icon for the course you are enrolled in under the MyLearning tab. If needed, you can click "Forgot my password" to reset your secure password.  

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. 

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 Mitigating Implicit Bias in Diagnosing Patients with Sepsis activity has been approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider No. 8181, for up to 1.0 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 enduring educational activity provides up to 1.0 contact hours of continuing education credit.

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 1.0 Category 1 credits for completing this activity. 

This webcast is funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation through a grant program administered by the Council of Medical Specialty Societies.

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 CEO/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.

Planners: 
Varun U. Shetty, MD
Intensivist
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Hamot
Erie, Pennsylvania, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Ann E. Thompson, MD, MHCPM, MCCM
Vice Dean
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Susan Lacey, PhD, RN, CNL, FAAN
Associate Director of Quality and Research
Society of Critical Care Medicine
Mount Prospect, Illinois, USA 
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Faculty: 
Varun U. Shetty, MD
Intensivist
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Hamot
Erie, Pennsylvania, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose

Ann E. Thompson, MD, MHCPM, MCCM
Vice Dean
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose