Fundamental Critical Care Support: Resource Limited Hosted Course

Host an FCCS: RL course and prepare healthcare professionals to care critically ill and injured patients in resource-limited areas.

The Society of Critical Care Medicine's (SCCM) hosted Fundamental Critical Care Support: Resource Limited (FCCS: RL) course combines expert-developed lectures with hands-on skill stations to prepare healthcare professionals for the unique challenges faced when resources are limited and the impact these limitations have on providing critical care.

The FCCS: RL course is designed for healthcare professionals who may encounter critically ill or injured patients in resource-limited environments. Participants will learn about managing resource limitations, resource allocation, triage, and ethical implications. The course focuses on a minimum-better-best paradigm for identifying monitoring and treatment strategies in the setting of austerity or resource limitation. Caregivers must have a clear understanding of available medical experience and skills, evacuation capabilities and timelines, equipment, medications, and other supplies.

A key aspect of FCCS: RL is the use of telemedicine to obtain essential subspecialty advice and procedural guidance when transport is delayed.

Course length: 2 days

Course features:

In-person learning format
Interactive presentations
Case-based skill stations
Pre- and posttests
Companion textbook
Certificate of successful course completion
Continuing education credit hours (if offered by the course site)

FCCS: RL is available as a licensed course in a live, site-hosted format for institutions to provide training for healthcare professionals.

To receive the certificate of successful completion, course participants must attend all didactic lectures, successfully complete all skill stations, and achieve a score of 70% or higher on the posttest.

Host an FCCS: RL Course

Contact the SCCM Licensing Team to learn more about bringing training to your institution.

Bring the Fundamentals to Your Institution

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In-Person Hosted Lectures and Skill Stations Additional Course Resources

The live, hosted two-day course is the traditional method for delivering the FCCS: RL course. The goal is for individual sites to become self-sustaining in their delivery of the FCCS: RL program.

Licensed sites arrange for qualified instructors to deliver lectures and their related skill stations.
Complete slide decks with speaker notes, administrative materials, and forms are provided to each site.
Textbooks are shipped to the site before the course, allowing learners to prepare for the live activity.
This site coordinator administers the pre- and posttests and provides score information to SCCM.

The Licensing Team can help sites that have not previously held a course find consultants who will lead the development of the FCCS:RL course on site.

View a Sample Course Schedule

Alternative schedule examples might follow these patterns:

Morning lectures followed by afternoon skill stations, OR
Two to three lectures followed by corresponding skill stations

Shaped by SCCM’s commitment to meeting the needs of each individual customer, the course pricing structure is designed to be both fair and flexible. Pricing options are tiered, based on a country’s gross domestic product at purchasing power parity (PPP) per capita as reported by the World Bank in its most current World Development Indicators database. This allows SCCM to accommodate ranges in needs and available financial resources.

Tier	GDP (PPP) Per Capita (USD)	Single Course Pricing (USD)	Per Learner Pricing (USD)
For-Profit	Not applicable	$1,320	$65 per learner
Nonprofit Tier 3	More than $15,000	$830	$61 per learner
Nonprofit Tier 2	Between $5,000 and $15,000	$550	$42 per learner
Nonprofit Tier 1	Less than $5,000	$220	$21 per learner

Enter your country below to determine the correct pricing tier.

Please contact the Licensing Team at +1 847 827-6888 or licensing@sccm.org with any circumstances that may require special pricing consideration.

Funded Training

SCCM has funding available to provide financial support for all types of critical care training for organizations in developing or impoverished nations and in underserved areas of the United States.

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Individual Self-Study Options

For individuals seeking FCCS: RL self-study options, the textbook is available for individual purchase as well as the option to search for a course scheduled nearby.

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