Overview
Critical Care ConfidenCE is a longitudinal assessment activity that provides 2 questions per week for .25 credits of ACE/MOC. New questions are released every Monday and Thursday.
Please note that in order to claim ACE or MOC credit, you have to complete your ACE/MOC profile in LearnICU.
Continuing Education
Accredited continuing education (ACE) release date: October 7, 2024
SCCM Product Code: CE2025
ACCME Code: 202829848
ACE expiration date: December 31, 2025
Estimated time for activity completion: 25 hours
Learning Objectives
- Demonstrate the ability to retain and apply foundational knowledge in critical care
- Integrate relevant concepts from multiple disciplines to address complex challenges in critical care medicine
- Apply evidence-based practices in critical care by consistently utilizing up-to-date research and data to inform decisions
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
- In-training practitioners
- Nurses
- Physicians
- Physician assistants
- Surgeons
Type of Activities
This online activity is designed to promote self-assessment and reflection to help professionals identify their own gaps in knowledge and take proactive steps to address them.
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:
- Medical knowledge
- Patient care
- Practice-based learning and improvement
Claiming Credit
You can access the questions 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.
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 25.0 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 ConfidenCE activity has been approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider No. 8181, for up to 25.0 contact hours.
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 25.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ credits for completing this activity.
Maintenance of Certification
Successful completion of this accredited continuing education (ACE) activity enables the participant to earn up to 25.0 medical knowledge maintenance of certification (MOC) points in the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) 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 ABIM MOC credit.
This course meets the requirements for MOC for up to 25.0 points.
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 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 CEO/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.
Planners and 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:
Dawn Herman, BSN, MBA
Society of Critical Care Medicine
Mount Prospect, Illinois, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose
Edward Michener
Society of Critical Care Medicine
Mount Prospect, Illinois, USA
No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose