Online accredited continuing education (ACE) release date: May 13, 2024
SCCM Product Code: MCCRCP24ON 
ACE expiration date: December 31, 2026
Estimated time for activity completion: 47.5 hours

• Discuss relevant clinical topics outlined by the American Board of Pediatrics to prepare for the critical care board examination in pediatrics
• Assess the scientific foundations and literature evidence for the diagnosis, monitoring, and management of children with critical illness
• Compare information among multiprofessional practitioners involved in the practice of pediatric critical care medicine

• Advanced practice nurses
• Anesthesiologists
• Clinical nurse specialists
• In-Training practitioners
• Medical directors
• Nurses
• Nurse educators
• Pharmacists
• Physicians
• Physician assistants
• Respiratory therapists
• Surgeons

This enduring learning activity will provide the learner with the knowledge and skills to take the critical care board examinations and acquire in-depth clinical knowledge to improve patient outcomes in critical care.

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
• Medical knowledge
• Interpersonal communication skills

You can access pretest, course materials,and posttests; complete yourevaluation; 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. 

Designation Statement: The Society of Critical Care Medicine designates this enduring educational activity for a maximum of 47.5 AMA PRA Category 1 credits™. Physicians should claim only those hours of credit that they actually spent in the educational activity.

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 Multiprofessional Critical Care Review: Pediatric activity has been approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider No. 8181, for up to a total of 47.5 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 and live educational activity provides up to 47.5 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 47.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ credits for completing this activity. 

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 EC. The ruling of the EC will be final.