Continuing Education
Accredited continuing education (ACE) release date: February 23, 2024
SCCM Product Code: CON24ON
ACE expiration date: February 1, 2025
Estimated time for activity completion: up to 134.25 credit hours for MD, PA, RN and up to 119 credit hours for PharmD
Software/Hardware and Internet Requirements
Learning Objectives
- 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
Target Audience
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
Type of Activity
This enduring activity includes elements that increase knowledge, application, and practice for the multiprofessional team members.
SCCM Statement on Opioids
The use of opioids for pain management includes the potential risks of addiction, abuse, and misuse of these drugs as patients transition out of the controlled ICU environment.
Competencies
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
Claiming Credit
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 the icon for the course in which you are enrolled under the MyLearning tab. If needed, you can click "Forgot my password" to reset your secure password.
Credit Hours
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 134.25 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 2024 SCCM Critical Care Congress activity has been approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider No. 8181, for up to 134.25 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 119 contact hours of continuing education credit.
(ACPE Numbers for Digital Congress)
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 134.25 Category 1 credits for completing this activity.
Maintenance of Certification
Successful completion of this accredited continuing education (ACE) activity, which includes in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn 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 MOC credit.
This course meets the requirements for MOC.
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.
SCCM Grievance Procedures Policy
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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