Frequently Asked Questions

SCCM provides a supportive community of more than 17,000 members from more than 100 countries. With a multitude of opportunities and resources, you can stay up to date on critical care knowledge and research; receive high-quality, engaging education; connect with world-renowned experts in critical care; collaborate with other professionals worldwide on research projects, and more.

For more details on membership, click here.

SCCM offers a membership structure to meet your needs, regardless of your role in critical care:
 

	Select	Professional	Associate
Physician	$727	$498	$224
Healthcare Professional	$359	$213	$96

Fellows and medical students may be eligible for free membership, if the accredited program is enrolled in SCCM’s Sponsored Trainee program.

Medical students should use the Healthcare Professional membership option since they have not yet graduated medical school. 

If you are a current SCCM member who will be retiring soon, contact SCCM Customer Service to learn more about your membership options.

View full details on the available membership types.

SCCM offers occasional promotions throughout the year. Members receive discounts of up to 25% on SCCM products and events, including registration to SCCM’s Critical Care Congress.

Please make sure that you are subscribed to receive emails from SCCM.

SCCM is committed to making membership accessible to critical care professionals worldwide. SCCM has adopted a new pricing structure based on a country’s gross domestic product at purchasing power parity per capita as reported by the World Bank in its most current World Development Indicators database.

Members in upper-middle-income, lower-middle-income, and low-income countries, as designated by the World Bank, pay reduced membership dues based on their country classification. Members who pay reduced dues are full members with all the rights of the membership selected. Click here to see your price.

Trainees in accredited critical care programs (including residents, fellows, and some medical students) may be eligible for FREE membership through their program.

Program directors who are SCCM Professional or Select members may register accredited programs in the Sponsored Trainee Program. Enrolled trainees receive Professional member benefits, except for making motions, voting, holding office, or receiving the Critical Care Medicine journal.

• Residents/Fellows: Program directors who are SCCM members can enroll their trainees in the Sponsored Trainee Program for free Professional membership benefits (except voting, holding office, or receiving the journal).

• Medical Students: If enrolled by their program director, they can receive free Professional membership.

Note: This applies to all trainee types. If the program does not participate in the Sponsored Trainee Program, medical students can join at the healthcare professional membership.

1. Visit sccm.org/join or sccm.org/renew.
2. Click Join Now or Renew Now on the page.
3. Log in to your account using your email address and password.
4. Follow the prompts to checkout.

If you are already logged in:

1. Navigate to mysccm.org.
2. Click Update Profile under your contact information.
3. Select Membership on the left-hand side.
4. Click Renew Your Membership.
   • Select Membership on the left-hand side.
   • Click Renew Your Membership.

You can find your membership expiration date at mysccm.org.

1. Log in to your account using your email address and password.
2. Your expiration date is listed on the left-hand side of the page under My Profile.

SCCM is the only professional organization that represents all members of the critical care team.

  

SCCM membership offers the latest in critical care education, connection with experts in the field, and an environment that supports healthcare professionals throughout their careers. You can find all the benefits here.

Yes, you can cancel your membership, but your dues are nonrefundable.

The SCCM Creative Community is a diverse network of member volunteers who serve on the Society’s many committees, task forces, and other workgroups.

Explore the Creative Community and apply to join.

SCCM Connect is the Society’s online platform for members to network and communicate with one another. The online community is a space to:

• Discuss the latest trends and important issues in critical care
• Access professional resources and information on upcoming events
• Find and connect with other SCCM members

Go to Participate, then select Post a message. You can also click on the “Post Message” link located at the top of a discussion email. Each community also has a unique email address. Save this email address to your address book and easily start a new post just as you would a regular email.

SCCM Connect FAQs can be found here.

Find the SCCM Beginner’s Guide to SCCM Connect here.

You can contact SCCM’s Customer Service Team.
Hours: Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Central Time
Phone: +1 847-827-6888
Email: support@sccm.org

Or

Amy Kuyken
Vice President, Membership
Phone: +1 847-493-6412
Email: akuyken@sccm.org

Yes, SCCM offers a retiree membership type for eligible retired professionals. This membership type does not require annual dues, but retiree members must verify their contact information annually with SCCM.
 
Eligibility requirements:

• Must have been an active SCCM member for the past 10 consecutive years
• Must be at least 67 years old
• Must be retired from primary employment

Benefits: 

• Discounts equivalent to a Professional Healthcare Professional membership
• Maintenance of FCCM or MCCM designation (but no new applications for FCCM or MCCM)
• Access to SCCM Resource Library
• Enrollment in up to three specialty sections
• Access to SCCM Connect
• Participation in knowledge education groups

Retiree members cannot make motions, vote, hold office, or serve on a committee.

While a subscription to the Critical Care Medicine journal is not included in retiree membership, a subscription can be added for $110 annually.

To apply for retiree membership, contact SCCM Customer Service at +1 847-827-6888.

Your benefits begin immediately after you create your account and complete your membership dues payment.

There are two ways to join a chapter:

1. Add a chapter to your SCCM membership:
   • Log in and navigate to My Account
   • Go to Membership
   • Look for the plus (+) button under “Chapters” in the Membership section
   • Follow the prompts to complete your chapter membership
2. Join a chapter only (without SCCM membership):
   • Log in to or create an account and navigate to My Account
   • Click the orange Join Chapters Only Membership button at the top of the Membership section
   • Follow the prompts to complete your registration

SCCM Sponsored Trainees can join chapters at no charge.

SCCM updated its digital platforms in November 2024. If learners have not logged in since this update or are logging in for the first time, they will need to verify their accounts and establish login credentials. Review instructions for establishing log in credentials.

Orders are processed and invoices are emailed within three business days. SCCM requires prepayment for all hosted training, which means that you cannot access the training materials or register your learners until you pay the invoice. When the invoice is sent, an individualized payment link is included if you wish to pay online by credit card. When you click on the link, you will see the payment screen. After the payment is processed, you will receive a receipt, and you will have access to your training dashboard and can start registering learners.

Any changes to course information or course contact must be submitted to the Hosted Training Team at hostedtraining@sccm.org.

After the course contact enrolls learners through the training dashboard in MySCCM, learners receive an email from SCCM directing them to access the course through the My Learning tab in their individual MySCCM accounts. Learners must complete the pretest before gaining access to the eBook or any of the training materials. Review hosted training learner instructions.

Each time you host a new training course, you must create a new course in your training dashboard under Hosted Training in your MySCCM account. This ensures that learners receive certificates with the correct course information. Review MySCCM Hosted Training Instructions.

With the hosted training model, SCCM will provide:

• Access to live and online training materials, including administrative materials to guide course planning
• Accredited continuing education credit for completion of online course materials for learners
• eBooks for all learners, with the option to add print books for a nominal fee
• Online pre- and posttests
• Ongoing learner assessments during and after course completion
• Test reports and evaluation data
• Online certificates of completion

Yes, a hosted site can drop a learner who has not started or completed the training, and the site can reassign the seat and eBook to a new learner. The seat cannot be reassigned to a new learner once the original learner starts the training; however, the original learner can be moved to a different training.

Hosted training sites can order learners by contacting SCCM at hostedtraining@sccm.org. Please be sure to include the training title, site name, training contact person, how many learners are needed, whether print books are needed and, if so, the address to which the books should be shipped. The SCCM hosted training team will process the invoice and send it to you within three business days.

Once the invoice has been paid, the training contact person can log in to MySCCM, which houses all training materials, learner registrations, and certificate information. The training contact will have access to the training dashboard through MySCCM and can log in with the email address and password created when they established their account. Only the course contact can access the course information. The contact must use MySCCM login information to access the roster and course materials. Review MySCCM instructions.

Please note that the learner fee includes eBooks only. A host site can obtain print books for learners for a nominal fee. Host sites are also responsible for shipping charges.

SCCM’s hosted training courses all require online testing, whether the learner attends a live course or completes the modules online. The pretest will be available to learners as soon as the course director adds the learner to the course roster. Learners will receive an email with instructions to access the pretest. Course faculty should not share or discuss pretest answers with learners during the course.

Course directors should instruct learners to wait to complete the posttest until after participating in the skill stations. SCCM recommends that course directors instruct learners to complete the posttest within two weeks after participating in the skill stations. It is the course director’s responsibility to remind learners to complete the posttest in a timely manner.

Learners will have three attempts to pass the posttest. Their first attempt will be unassisted, meaning they will see only the question and options. On the second and third attempts, they will have access to the references and rationales for missed questions.

All test progress is saved in real time. A “save and continue” option is available if a learner has to stop their examination. Attempts need not occur consecutively.

Each course has a designated course contact, assigned by the host site, to manage the course. All course information is located under the course contact’s account. The course contact can create courses, register learners, access course materials, and assign faculty. The course contact may also assign a delegate to manage the course on their behalf. The instructions for adding and removing delegates can be found here.