Thank you for participating in the 2025 Multidisciplinary Critical Care Knowledge Assessment Program (MCCKAP)!
The examination must be administered and proctored between April 1 and 8, 2025.
Please read and follow all the instructions below to register your fellows and grant access to the examination.
To allow your fellows access to the MCCKAP examination, you must enter their information into SCCM’s Hosted Training Portal. To do this, please log in to your MySCCM profile as early as possible before beginning the examination. The examination goes live Tuesday, April 1, 2025, at 8:00 a.m. Central Time. No one will have access to the examination until then. If you do not have your login information, use the “Forgot your password?” link on the MySCCM log in page to retrieve it.
After logging in to MySCCM, click the Hosted Training link located in the upper right of your profile page. This link will take you to the SCCM Hosted Training Portal. Once in the portal, find the appropriate MCCKAP examination and click the View Students button. If the examination is not automatically populated, you must Create a New Course, select a location, select a course to create (per Invoice Number), enter an alias name, and a date for the course, before clicking on View Students to add.
To enroll fellows, search for them in the Search for Contacts for MCCKAPA25 or MCCKAPP25 search engine. Enter their first name, last name and, if available, email address, and click the Search button. Check the results for your fellows. Once you find the fellow in the list, use the pull-down menu to fill out the Post Graduate Year and Specialty fields. Once you have filled in those fields, click the Add to Course button. If you cannot locate your fellow in the results or no results are found, scroll down the page until you find the Show Create User Form button. Please note that, even if your fellow previously took the MCCKAP examination, they may not show up in the search results.
Once on the Create New User screen, fill in your fellow’s First Name, Last Name, Profession, Program Year, Specialty, and Email, and click the Create Account and Email Student button. This will add the fellow to the Current Students list and send an email informing the fellow that they are enrolled in the MCCKAP examination, providing a link to log in to their MySCCM account, and displaying their MySCCM ID.
Please inform your fellows to keep this email until they have logged in to the examination because it contains the ID needed to access the examination.
If a fellow does not receive their login information email before the examination or they lose it, the program director can resend the email through the Hosted Training Portal by clicking the Resend button next to the student’s name in the Course Students list in the appropriate course.
Once you have added all your fellows into the Course Students list, they are granted access to the examination. By entering their information into your Current Students list, you have prompted the system to create access to the examination that will be active throughout the testing window.
On the day of the examination, fellows should open the email containing the link to the MySCCM page and, if they have already set up their account in the new SCCM system (the system was implemented on 11/1/2024), they can log in. If they have not already set up their account in the new system, use the Sign Up Now link on the log in page to set up their account; just follow the instructions on the Sign Up Now screen.
Once fellows are logged in to their MySCCM page, they should click the My Learning link. In My Learning, there will be a link for the MCCKAP examination. This link will take the fellow to the examination.
In person
It is recommended that a proctor be present at all times during examination administration. The proctor should inform fellows that there is optional break time of up to 60 minutes available during the examination. It is not necessary for all fellows to take the break simultaneously. The proctor should give directions on where fellows should go for breaks and advise them that the security of the examination must be maintained at all times. The system will track the break time used and the break time remaining.
The proctor must ensure that examinees work independently. Spoken or written communication between fellows during the examination is prohibited. If this occurs, the proctor must disqualify those involved and verify that they log out of the examination immediately and leave the site. The proctor must ensure that examination materials are not printed or copied and that fellows do not attempt to email them to anyone. Both actions are a serious breach of examination security.
Virtually
While it is recommended that all examinations be taken in a proctored environment, a setting that will best prepare participants for the subspecialty board examination, the proctoring milieu will be left to the discretion of the program director. If a remote, virtual examination administration is desired, program directors should remind fellows that they are expected to abide by the honor system.
Fellows must submit their examination before they can view the preliminary results. On examination completion, a detailed examination summary is available for fellows to either view or download by clicking the Examination summary report button on the main examination page. This will open a page that displays the raw overall score, including raw score breakdowns by category, and the raw overall peer average for the examination. Fellows can also view references for questions that they answered incorrectly in each section. This report can be downloaded as a pdf and sent to the program director.
Directors and/or proctors can view fellows’ progress by logging in to the MySCCM account associated with the examination registration and clicking the Hosted Training button. This will take them to the same SCCM Hosted Training Portal where student information was initially entered. In this portal, student information, examination progress, raw scores, and question-by-question results can be viewed. Final scoring and program comparisons will be available in this portal after the key verification process is completed, five weeks after the examination window closes. All results are considered preliminary until final scoring is completed.
Please be sure to resolve any unpaid balances before the examination to ensure the release of your test results. Any questions about the examination should be directed to SCCM Customer Service at +1 847 827-6888 between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Central Time, Monday through Friday.