Continuing Education
Accredited continuing education (ACE) release date: December 29, 2025
SCCM Product Code: STREAMS26, STREAMP26, STREAMA26
ACE expiration date: December 31, 2026
Estimated time for activity completion: varies – self-directed activity
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Software/Hardware and Internet Requirements
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Learning Objectives
- Identify educational resources within the SCCM library that address individual and team-based practice gaps across diverse professional roles.
- Apply personalized learning strategies to select and engage with content that supports evidence-based, interprofessional critical care practice.
- Integrate recommended educational offerings into ongoing learning plans to enhance team competence and improve patient care outcomes.
Target Audience
This accredited continuing education activity is intended to meet the needs of all practitioners who care for critically ill patients.
Type of Activity
This online activity is designed to empower the entire healthcare team to identify relevant educational content, enhance knowledge of evidence-based critical care practices, and strengthen competence in applying these principles collaboratively.
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
- Practice-based learning and improvement
- Professionalism
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. Alternatively, you can click “Claim Credit” under the Credit tab in SCCM Stream, which will link you to your MyLearning page where you can select the appropriate credit claim course.
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 enduring educational activity for a maximum of 75 AMA PRA Category 1 credits™ for our Select members, 25 AMA PRA Category 1 credits™ for our Professional members and 15 AMA PRA Category 1 credits™ for our Associate members. 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 SCCM Stream activity has been approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider No. 8181, for up to 75 contact hours for our Select members, 25 contact hours for our Professional members and 15 contact hours for our Associate members.
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 75 continuing education credit for our Select members, continuing education credit for our Professional members and 15 continuing education credit for our Associate members.
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Member Type
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ACPE #
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Credit Hours
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Claim By Date
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Select
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0236-0000-25-199-H01-P
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75
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December 31, 2026
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Professional
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0236-0000-25-200-H01-P
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25
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December 31, 2026
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Associate
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0236-0000-25-201-H01-P
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15
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December 31, 2026
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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 75 AMA PRA Category 1 credits™ for our Select members, 25 AMA PRA Category 1 credits™ for our Professional members and 15 AMA PRA Category 1 credits™.
Maintenance of Certification
Successful completion of this accredited continuing education (ACE) activity, which includes participation and if a post-test is included a passing score of 70% in the posttest, enables the participant to earn up to 75 credits for our Select members, 25 credits for our Professional members and 15 credits for our Associate members 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), American Board of Pediatrics (ABP), and American Board of Thoracic Surgery (ABTS) MOC programs. 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 75 credits for our Select members, 25 credits for our Professional members and 15 credits for our Associate members.
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:
TJ Boron, MSN, RN
Society of Critical Care Medicine
Mount Prospect, Illinois, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose
Faculty:
All content published on SCCM Stream is developed and delivered in accordance with SCCM’s rigorous standards for disclosure and conflict-of-interest resolution. Each activity or presentation includes a clear listing of faculty disclosures at the outset. Prior to posting, all disclosures are thoroughly reviewed, and any actual or potential conflicts of interest are addressed through SCCM’s established conflict-of-interest resolution process to ensure educational integrity and independence. This process guarantees that learners receive unbiased, evidence-based information across all SCCM Stream offerings.