Continuing Education
Accredited continuing education (ACE) release date: Webinar #1 – June 16, 2026, Webinar #2 – August 18, 2026
SCCM Product Code: WEBULTRA26
ACE expiration date: 6/16/2027
Estimated time for activity completion: 1 hour per webinar
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Learning Objectives
- Design and implement a sustainable POCUS program by understanding the essential elements of infrastructure, credentialing, and governance.
- Optimize billing, coding, and documentation to support financial sustainability and compliance with institutional and payer requirements.
- Foster interdepartmental collaboration by aligning POCUS efforts with existing resources in Radiology, Cardiology, and Emergency Medicine.
- Develop and maintain POCUS programs that reinforce competency, appropriate use, and longitudinal skill development among providers.
Target Audience
This continuing education activity is intended to meet the needs of all practitioners who care for critically ill patients.
Type of Activity
This live activity will address these challenges by presenting a practical, end-to-end roadmap for building and sustaining effective critical care POCUS programs, with actionable strategies to overcome real-world barriers and create a foundation for long-term success.
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:
- Adaptability and Flexibility
- Interprofessional communication
- Medical knowledge/clinical expertise
- Organizational skills
- Patient-centered care
- Practice-based learning and improvement
- Professionalism
- Roles and responsibilities
- Teamwork and collaboration
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 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.
By registering for and completing this continuing medical education activity, I give permission to the Society of Critical care Medicine to share my accredited continuing education (ACE) completion information and related personal information (e.g. name, National Provider Identifier, birthdate MM/DD) with the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) for inclusion in my CME Passport transcript and, potentially, reporting to my certifying and licensing bodies and any other regulatory authority that I specify.
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 live educational activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 credits™ per webinar. 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 Developing High-Impact POCUS Programs activity has been approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider No. 8181, for up to 1.0 contact hours per webinar.
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 live educational activity provides up to 1.0 contact hours of continuing education credit per webinar.
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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 1.0 Category 1 credits for completing each webinar.
Maintenance of Certification
The successful completion of this accredited continuing education (ACE) activity includes completion of the post-program evaluation. This enables the participant to earn up to 1.0 medical knowledge maintenance of certification (MOC) point(s) in the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), American Board of Anesthesia (ABA) redesigned Maintenance of Certification in AnesthesiologyTM (MOCA®) program, known as MOCA 2.0®, American Board of Surgery (ABS) Continuous Certification program, American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) Lifelong Learning (CME), and American Board of Thoracic Surgery (ABTS) Self-Assessment / Patient Safety / Performance in Practice requirements of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery’s Continuing Certification program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of ACE credits claimed for the activity.
This course meets the requirements for MOC for up to 1.0 credits per webinar.
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.
Disclosures
The content of this activity has been peer reviewed and has been approved for compliance. The faculty and contributors have indicated the following financial relationships, which have been mitigated through an established conflict-of-interest resolution process and have stated that these reported relationships will not have any impact on their ability to provide unbiased content.
Planners and Reviewers for all webinars
Aarti Sarwal, MD, FCCM
Professor, Neurology
Virginia Commonwealth University Health System
Richmond, Virginia, USA
Honoraria – Neurocritical Care Society, European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine, Indian Academy of Neurology, Intensive Care Society (UK), American Thoracic Society, Pan Arab Critical Care Conference, Emirates Critical Care Conference
Christopher Schott, MD, MS, RDMS
Associate Professor of Critical Care Medicine and Emergency Medicine
VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose
Theresa Woike
Society of Critical Care Medicine
Mount Prospect, Illinois, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose
Faculty
Webcast #1:
Aarti Sarwal, MD, FCCM
Professor, Neurology
Virginia Commonwealth University Health System
Richmond, Virginia, USA
Honoraria – Neurocritical Care Society, European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine, Indian Academy of Neurology, Intensive Care Society (UK), American Thoracic Society, Pan Arab Critical Care Conference, Emirates Critical Care Conference
Christopher Schott, MD, MS, RDMS
Associate Professor of Critical Care Medicine and Emergency Medicine
VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose
Dan Sweeney, MD
Medical CCU Director, Hillcrest Hospital, Director of PCCSM Ultrasound Education,
Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
University of California San Diego Thornton Hospital
La Jolla, California, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose
Jose Diaz-Gomez, MD, MS, MBA, FASE, FCCM
Chair, Integrated Hospital Care Institute
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose
Sarah Bain, MD, FASA, FCCM
Hospital Director of Point of Care Ultrasound Virginia Mason Franciscan Health
Virginia Mason Medical Center
Seattle, Washington, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose
Webcast #2:
Antonio Hernandes, MD, MSc, FCCM
Director, Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit and Critical Care Echocardiography
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose
Brandon Wiley, MD, FACC, FASE, FCCM
Chief of Cardiology
LAC + USC Medical Center
Pasadena, California, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose
Christopher Schott, MD, MS, RDMS, FACEP
Associate Professor of Critical Care Medicine and Emergency Medicine
VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose
Sarah Ginsburg, MD
Attending Physician
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose
Siddharth Dugar, MD, FCCM
Associate Staff
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Contributor – Chest Hemodynamic Monitoring Sepsis Guidelines