Choosing your Pathway from EM to Critical Care: 2025 Update

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Accredited continuing education (ACE) release date: January 9, 2026

SCCM Product Code: WEBSEC26A

ACE expiration date: January 9, 2027, ACPE expires March 10, 2026

Estimated time for activity completion: 1 hours

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Learning Objectives

Identify four major training pathways for emergency medicine (EM) graduates
Describe the application process for each pathway
Analyze the pros and cons of practicing each type of critical care
Assess the job opportunities for emergency medicine/critical care medicine graduates after training in the respective pathways

Target Audience

This continuing education activity is intended to meet the needs of all practitioners who care for critically ill patients, including: 

Residents/Students
Physicians

Type of Activity

This live activity will provide education on the different emergency medicine pathways as new pathways have become available and provide guidance on those pursuing critical care training.

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: 

Professionalism
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™. 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 Building Strong Research Proposals: From Hypothesis to Literature Review activity has been approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider No. 8181, for up to 1.0 contact hours.  

A picture containing text, window, clipart, picture frameDescription automatically generated 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.  

(0236-0000-25-197-L01-P) 

PLEASE NOTE: To claim LIVE credits, credits from each session must be claimed by the following dates:

ACPE #	Credit Hours	Claim By Date
0236-0000-26-002-L99-P	1.0	March 10, 2026

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.

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: 

Natalie Htet, MD, MS

Stanford University

Palo Alto, California, USA