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Professional Development: Skills, Super-Skills, and Ultra-Skills
Examine professional development through a new framework to succeed in today’s complex ICU clinical environment.
Supporting Each Other in Critical Care Careers
Growing and advancing careers in critical care starts at home with the multidisciplinary team.
SCCM Pod-519: Crisis and Chaos: Pandemic Perspectives
Improving health literacy is vital for addressing disparities in healthcare access and quality. Join Host Kyle B. Enfield, MD, FSHEA, FCCM, and Jerome...
SCCM Pod-516: Bedside Practices in Hemodynamic Management
While advanced monitoring technology can provide valuable information, the importance of clinical judgment and examination should not be minimized. Ho...
SCCM Pod-515: Ultrasound Training and Humanitarian Missions
Host Maureen A. Madden, DNP, RN, CPNP-AC, CCRN, FCCM, is joined by Susanna Rudy, ACNP, DNP, to discuss her journey from developing ultrasound training...
SCCM Pod-514: Current Concepts: Managing Liver Failure in the ICU
This is the fifth episode of SCCM’s Current Concepts Series, in which authors unveil exclusive insights into the 2024 Current Concepts Course. D...
SCCM Pod-513: Current Concepts: Effective, Culturally Sensitive End-of-Life Discussions
This is the fourth episode of SCCM’s Current Concepts Series. Diane C. McLaughlin, DNP, AGACNP-BC, CCRN, FCCM, is joined by Kwame A. Akuamoah-Bo...
SCCM Pod-512: The Link Between Workforce Retention and Patient Safety
In the first of a series of podcast episodes focused on quality and patient safety, host Maureen A. Madden, DNP, RN, CPNC-AC, CCRN, FCCM, is joined by...
SCCM Pod-511: LEAD: Crafting Captivating Presentations
Unlock the key to captivating your audience with SCCM's Leadership, Empowerment, and Development (LEAD) Program. Have you ever left a presentation...
SCCM Pod-510: APP Fellowship Series: The Director's Viewpoint
As advanced practice provider (APP) postgraduate programs expand, what lessons have we learned as program directors? In this second episode of the APP...
SCCM Pod-509: APP Fellowship Series: Insights Beyond the Classroom
As advanced practice provider (APP) postgraduate programs expand, what can we learn from the graduates themselves? Diane C. McLaughlin, DNP, AGACNP-BC...
Critical Care Congress Site Selection
SCCM President Vinay M. Nadkarni, MD, MS, FCCM, provides an overview on how the Society is prioritizing and rethinking ease, comfort, and co...
SCCM Trains Ukrainian Clinicians on Critical Care Ultrasound
Members of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) traveled from the United States to Lviv, Ukraine in March to train more than 140 clinicians on...
Trip to West Africa Kicks Off SCCM AIRS Project
Oxygen is essential for human life and has no substitute. Its importance was highlighted during the COVID-19 pandemic by the many patients who had dif...
SCCM to Lead Ultrasound Training in Ukraine
José L. Díaz-Gómez, MD, FASE, FCCM, rides his bicycle to work every day in Houston, Texas. He passes the Texas Medical Center, where he sees a large U...
Spreading Point-of-Care Ultrasound Training With the SCCM Course
In 2014, Nibras F. Bughrara, MD, FASA, FCCM, joined Albany Medical Center (AMC) in Albany, New York, USA, after completing a critical care medicine fe...
COVID-19 Shutdown Expands Opportunity to Teach Critical Care Medicine
Before Michael J. Waxman, MBA, MD, FCCM, heads out to teach an FCCS course, he goes into his attic, where his simulation and teaching equipment is sto...
Teaching Crisis Management in the United States and Around the World
Mary J. Reed, MD, FCCM, began teaching FCCS about 25 years ago. From there, her involvement expanded to teaching multiple SCCM courses, helping to dev...
SCCM Supports FCCS Training in Tajikistan
Khorog, the regional capital of Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO), sits at an elevation of 2200 meters among the beautiful but rugged and isol...
The Critical Care Community Shares Why It’s “Better Together” at Congress 2023
The Society of Critical Care Medicine’s (SCCM) 2023 Critical Care Congress in San Francisco marked the in-person return of the largest multiprof...
Dr. Glaucomflecken Shares Humor on Social Media and at 2023 Critical Care Congress
Social media star and comedian Dr. Glaucomflecken, aka ophthalmologist William E. Flanary, MD, along with his wife, Kristin Flanary, MA, shared s...
Concise Critical Appraisal: Professional Development Despite ICU Burnout and Staff Shortages
This Concise Critical Appraisal describes two articles that illuminate the associations among the COVID-19 pandemic, clinician well-being, and burnout...
Best Practices for Mentorship and Burnout Mitigation
More than 75% of healthcare professionals have self-reported burnout as well as increased frustration and feeling overwhelmed at work. Andrea Sik...
SCCM Demonstrates Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at 2022 Critical Care Congress
The Society of Critical Care Medicine’s (SCCM) dedication to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) will be on full display at the 2022 Critical...
2022 Critical Care Congress Plenary: Cultivating Leadership from Within
Beth A. Wathen, CCRN-K, MSN, RN, is the current president of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN), the world’s largest specia...
Let’s look into the future of critical care together!
As the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) winds down its 50th year, its leadership continues to celebrate the dedication and vision of SCCM memb...
2022 Critical Care Congress Thought Leaders: The Future of Critical Care
Rebecca A. Aslakson, MD, PhD, and Michelle N. Gong, MD, MS, will present a thought leader session titled The Future of Critical Care: Artificial Intel...
Remembering a Founder: Ake Grenvik, MD, PhD, MCCM
Ake Grenvik, MD, PhD, MCCM, a founding member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and one of the earliest pioneers of critical care, died ...
Concise Critical Appraisal: Asynchronous and Distance Learning in the Age of COVID-19 and Beyond
The medical community has faced many challenges as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, including ensuring continued medical education in the face of so...
Achieving Buy-In for the ICU Liberation Campaign
As a bedside nurse in the intensive care unit (ICU), I did not have much understanding of the financial impact my care was having on the patients and ...
Addressing Implicit Bias in the Critical Care Workforce
Implicit bias is an unconscious negative view of a group of people that can compromise relationships and, in the case of the medical community, stand ...
The Future of Critical Care Medicine
Bertalan Mesko, MD, PhD, presents on the future of critical care medicine at SCCM's 50th Critical Care Congress.
ICU-Telemedicine May Reduce Death
Intensive care unit (ICU) patients who receive services via telemedicine are less likely to die and more likely to leave the hospital sooner compared ...
COVID-19: What’s Next: A Deeper Dive into Top Sessions
COVID-19: What’s Next, the first-of-its kind virtual conference hosted by the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), featured the newest rese...
Message From the SCCM President on Diversity
Currently, we face extraordinary challenges on a global scale, with multiple crises erupting one after another. Each of them compels us to thoughtfull...
Clinicians Report High Stress in COVID-19 Response
Critical care clinicians are feeling increased personal stress about COVID-19 and are especially worried about infecting loved ones, while also expres...
Donor-Funded Training Supports Fundamentals Courses in Rwanda
Learn how Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) members turned a passion for improving care into action by holding donor-funded training in resourc...
Concise Critical Appraisal: Mentorship in Academic Medicine
Disch (Crit Care Med. 2018;46:437-441) set out to highlight the benefits of mentorship and its lack in underrepresented groups. Although women and min...
Working Together to Advance Diversity and Inclusion
Read about the Society of Critical Care Medicine's (SCCM) efforts to seek diversity and inclusion within the critical care profession and SCCM org...
Concise Critical Appraisal: Impact of Mentoring in Academic Medicine
Efstathiou et al (PLoS One. 2018;13:e0207634) developed a standardized mentorship program and a series of surveys to evaluate the program’s impa...
Concise Critical Appraisal: Use of Telemedicine During Interhospital Transport of Children
Jackson et al (Ped Crit Care Med. 2018;19:1033-1038) set out to analyze the impact telemedicine had on time to surgery in children with intracranial h...
SCCM Pod-501: Leadership and Management Skills
Gain valuable insights and tools on topics including mentorship, leadership, and workplace relationships that are specific to practitioners in critica...
SCCM Pod-493: Bundle and Save: The Future of ICU Liberation
Ludwig H. Lin, MD, was joined by Kristina A. Betters, MD, and Christopher Adams, PharmD, BCCCP, BCPS, FCCM, during the 2023 Critical Care Congress to ...
SCCM Pod-490: The Role of Social Media in Medical Education
Can healthcare professionals use social media to enhance delivery of medical education and deliver the same educational content to a larger, more dive...
SCCM Pod-479: Is Tele-Critical Care Medicine the Future of Healthcare?
During the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals implemented tele-critical care medicine to help patients while keeping staff safe from exposure. Now that pati...
SCCM Pod-473 Changing Careers Means Changing Perspectives
Healthcare professionals who want to make a job change often do not know how to go about it. Impending job searches seem daunting. Ludwig Lin, MD, was...
SCCM Pod-472 Career Crossroads: Taking the LEAD in a New Direction
Marilyn Bulloch, PharmD, BCPS, FCCM, was joined by Judith Jacobi, PharmD, BCCCP, MCCM, during SCCM’s 2023 Critical Care Congress to discuss how ...
SCCM Pod-462 APP: Bullying in the Workplace
Are there bullies in the world of advanced practice providers (APPs)? How is bullying defined in a clinical environment? In this podcast, three APPs f...
SCCM Pod-46 2007 Congress Keynotes Up Close: Daren Heyland
Daren Heyland, MD, MSc, is of the prominent keynote speakers set to present during the 36th Critical Care Congress. He discusses his presentatio...
SCCM Pod-47 2007 Congress Keynotes Up Close: Patrick Kochanek
Patrick Kochanek, MD, FCCM, is one of the prominent keynote speakers set to present during the 36th Critical Care Congress. He discusses his presentat...
SCCM Pod-49 Responding to NEJM's Article on the SSC
Mitchell Levy, MD, FCCM, discusses a perspectives article published in the October 19, 2006, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, titled &quo...
SCCM Pod-74 PCCM: The Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network
Douglas Willson, MD, discusses an article he published in the July 2006 issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, "The Collaborative Pediatric C...
SCCM Pod-74 PCCM: The Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network
Douglas Willson, MD, discusses an article he published in the July 2006 issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, "The Collaborative Pediatric C...
SCCM Pod-102 Leadership in Critical Care - Part I
John McNelis, MD, FCCM, discusses leadership and mentorship in the critical care community.
SCCM Pod-103 Leadership in Critical Care - Part II
Vladimir Kvetan, MD, FCCM, discusses the history and goals of the Critical Care Leadership Network of the Greater New York Hospital Association for wh...
SCCM Pod-105 Message from the President
Society of Critical Care Medicine president Mitchell Levy, MD, FCCM, discusses his goals and vision for the Society during his 2009 term.
SCCM Pod-123 Message from the 2010 President
Society of Critical Care Medicine president Judith Jacobi, PharmD, BCPS, FCCM, discusses her goals and vision for the Society during her 2010 term. As...
SCCM Pod-125 Focus on the Team: Acute Critical Care Surgery
Michael West, MD, PhD, FCCM, discusses his unique career path into critical care and his background as a trauma/critical care surgeon.
SCCM Pod-127 CCM: Physician Extenders in the ICU
Ruth Kleinpell, RN, PhD, RN-CS, FCCM, discusses her experience as a nurse practitioner as well as her research into the role of nurse practitioners an...
SCCM Pod-130 PCCM: Telemedicine in Rural Emergency Departments
Amelia Hopkins, MD, FCCM, discusses her article published in the September 2009 issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, “Pediatric Critical C...
SCCM Pod-132 The Future of Acute Care Surgery
Lewis J. Kaplan, MD, FCCM, discusses acute care surgery, its relation to surgical critical care, and his predictions for the future of acute care surg...
SCCM Pod-135 PCCM: WFPICCS and Its Global Agenda
Niranjan Kissoon, MD, FCCM, discusses his article published in the September 2009 issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, titled “World Feder...
SCCM Pod-144 Message from the 2011 President
Society of Critical Care Medicine president Pamela A. Lipsett, MD, MHPE, FCCM, discusses her professional background and research interests during an ...
SCCM Pod-154 Establishing Successful FDM and FCCS Courses, METs
Babak Sarani, MD, serves as a course director for the Fundamental Critical Care Support (FCCS) and Fundamental Disaster Management (FDM) programs and ...
SCCM Pod-183: Healthcare in the 21st Century
Robert M. Pearl, MD, discusses the state of U.S. medicine as well as the importance of information technology and the future of healthcare reform with...
SCCM Pod-188 CCM: Patient-Centered Critical Care Reconsidered
Michael Weinstein, MD, FACS, FCCP, speaks with Constantine Manthous, MD, who discusses his article published in the August Critical Care Medicine titl...
SCCM Pod-196 CCM: Training Residents Effectively in Mechanical Ventilation
Michael Weinstein speaks with Ewan Goligher, MD, FRCPC, lead author on an article published in the October Critical Care Medicine, “Core Compete...
SCCM Pod-210 Message from the 2013 President
Society of Critical Care Medicine president Carol L. Thompson, PhD, CCRN, ACNP, FCCM, discusses her professional background as a nurse during an engag...
SCCM Pod-229: Lifetime Achievement Award, Sepsis Research
Michael Weinstein, MD, FACS, FCCP, speaks with Mitchell P. Fink, MD, FCCM, who is the recipient of the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s Lifet...
SCCM Pod-238 Internet-Based Knowledge Exchange Platform for Pediatric Critical Care Clinicians World
Margaret Parker, MD, MCCM, speaks with Traci A. Wolbrink, MD, MPH, about “The Development of an Internet-based Knowledge Exchange Platform for P...
SCCM Pod-243 Understanding Sleep in Critically Ill Patients
Michael Weinstein, MD, FACS, FCCP, speaks with Brian Gehlbach, MD, Associate Professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Occupational M...
SCCM Pod-252 44th Critical Care Congress: Creating a Healthy Work Environment Through Compassionate
Ludwig H. Lin, MD, speaks with Dorrie K. Fontaine, PhD, RN, FAAN, Dean and Professor at the University of Virginia School of Nursing. Dr. Fontaine sha...
SCCM Pod-253 44th Critical Care Congress: Presidential Address
Michael Weinstein, MD, FACS, FCCP, speaks with the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s 2015 President, Craig M. Coopersmith, MD, FCCM.
SCCM Pod-257 44th Critical Care Congress: The Practice of Critical Care: Ten Things We Can (and Must
Michael Weinstein, MD, FACS, FCCP, speaks with R. Phillip Dellinger, MD, MCCM. Dr. Dellinger is a plenary speaker at this year’s Critical Care C...
SCCM Pod-260 44th Critical Care Congress: SCCM Family-Centered Care Award Winner Shares Experience
Ludwig H. Lin, MD, speaks with Keri Nasenbeny, RN, MHA, Assistant Administrator of Critical Care at the University of Washington Medical Center in Sea...
SCCM Pod-265 Diagnostic Errors in the Pediatric and Neonatal ICU
Margaret Parker, MD, MCCM, speaks with Jason W. Custer, MD, about the article, “Diagnostic Errors in the Pediatric and Neonatal ICU: A Systemati...
SCCM Pod-284 The Very Elderly Admitted to ICU: A Quality Finish?
Michael S. Weinstein, MD, FACS, FCCM, speaks with Daren K. Heyland, MD, FRCPC, about the article, “The Very Elderly Admitted to ICU: A Quality F...
SCCM Pod-293 Why ICU Clinicians Need to Care about Post-Intensive Care Syndrome
Ludwig Lin, MD, speaks with Mark Mikkelsen, MD, MSCE, about the article, “Why ICU Clinicians Need to Care about Post-Intensive Care Syndrome,&rd...
SCCM Pod-294 Practice Patterns in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Margaret Parker, MD, MCCM, speaks with Donald D. Vernon, MD, FAAP, about the article, “Practice Patterns in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine: Re...
SCCM Pod-298 Critical Care Organizations in Academic Medical Centers in North America: A Descriptive
Michael S. Weinstein, MD, FACS, FCCM, speaks with Stephen M. Pastores, MD, FCCM, about the article, “Critical Care Organizations in Academic Med...
SCCM Pod-303 Post-Intensive Care Syndrome: Truth About Consequences, Right Care Right Now and Later
Ludwig Lin, MD, speaks with Maurene A. Harvey, MPH, RN, MCCM, about her upcoming plenary talk, “Post-Intensive Care Syndrome: Truth About Conseq...
SCCM Pod-306 Fusing Clinical Care with Clinical Research: The Future of the Randomized Control Trial
Ludwig Lin, MD, speaks with Derek C. Angus, MD, MPH, FRCP, about his upcoming talk, “Fusing Clinical Care with Clinical Research: The Future of ...
SCCM Pod-319 Learning from Others: What We Can All Take from the Pediatrics Experience
Margaret Parker, MD, MCCM, speaks with Neethi Pinto, MD, about her talk, “Learning from Others: What We Can All Take from the Pediatrics Experie...
SCCM Pod-327 Does Simulation Improve Recognition and Management of Pediatric Septic Shock?
Margaret Parker, MD, MCCM, speaks with Mark C. Dugan, MD, about the article, “Does Simulation Improve Recognition and Management of Pediatric Se...
SCCM Pod-335 SCCM President Ruth Kleinpell Discusses the Year Ahead
Ludwig Lin, MD, speaks with Ruth M. Kleinpell, PhD, RN, FAAN, FCCM. Dr. Kleinpell is Director at the Center for Clinical Research and Scholarship and ...
SCCM Pod-340 Interview with Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Patrick Kochanek
Ranjit Deshpande, MD, speaks with Patrick Kochanek, MD, MCCM, about his plenary talk at the 46th Critical Care Congress in Honolulu, Hawaii, entitled ...
SCCM Pod-353 Are Biomarkers Ready for Prime Time?
Kyle Enfield, MD, speaks with John A. Kellum, MD, MCCM, about his talk presented at the 46th Critical Care Congress in Honolulu, Hawaii entitled, &ldq...
SCCM Pod-359 Early Mobility in Critically Ill Patients
Kyle Enfield, MD, speaks with Wes Ely, MD, MPH, about his talk presented at the 2017 Multiprofessional Critical Care Review: Adult course in Rosemont,...
SCCM Pod-360 Alarm and Alert Fatigue in Critical Care
Todd Fraser, MD, speaks with Bradford D. Winters, PhD, MD, FCCM, about alarm and alert fatigue in critical care. Alarm fatigue is the desensitization ...
SCCM Pod-380 2019 Presidential Address
Margaret M. Parker, MD, MCCM, speaks with SCCM President Heatherlee Bailey, MD, FCCM, about Dr. Bailey's path to becoming SCCM’s 2019 presid...
SCCM Pod-386 Tele-ICUs
Kyle B. Enfield, MD, and Craig M. Lilly, MD, FCCM, examine tele-ICUs. Dr. Lilly presented on this topic at the Society's 48th Critical Care Congre...
SCCM Pod-390 Telehealth and Patient Outcomes
Ranjit Deshpande, MD, and Donna Lee Armaignac, PhD, APRN, CCNS, CCRN, discuss maximizing positive patient care outcomes through telemedicine.
SCCM Pod-411 Clinician Moral Distress
Margaret M. Parker, MD, MCCM, and Christopher S. Parshuram, MBChB, PhD, discuss clinician moral distress in Canadian pediatric and neonatal intensive ...
SCCM Pod-433 Choosing Wisely for Critical Care: The Next Five
Five new recommendations to reduce waste and enhance value in the practice of critical care address invasive devices, proactive liberation from mechan...
SCCM Pod-452 CCM: Racial Disparities in ICU Outcome
In this podcast, host Kyle B. Enfield, MD, FSHEA, FCCM, is joined by Samuel K. McGowan, MD, to discuss a systematic review that found significant diff...
SCCM Pod-451 PCCM: A Hard Learned Lesson on What It's Like to Be a Patient
In the ICU, medical staff do all they can to assist patients and get them back to health as quickly as possible. In the process of saving lives, bedsi...
Fundamentals Courses Help Critically Ill Patients in Underserved Areas
Thanks to the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the Edwards Lifesciences Foundation, Gisselle Aguilar Sabillon, MD, recently led two Pediatric Fun...
SCCM Critical Care Workforce Update 2023
As an update to a 2019 workforce report, three committees from the Society of Critical Care Medicine evaluated critical care medicine’s continue...
SCCM Pod-499: Is Mentorship Obsolete in Our Modern Healthcare Environment?
Host Kyle B. Enfield, MD, FCCM, is joined by Lewis J. Kaplan, MD, FACS, FCCP, FCCM, and Kenneth E. Remy, MD, MHSc, MSCI, FCCM, to discuss whether ment...
My First Congress: What to Know
Attending your first Critical Care Congress? Read on for some tips and tricks on navigating the meeting without becoming overwhelmed.
SCCM Success at AMA House of Delegates Meetings
Society of Critical Care Medicine representatives to the American Medical Association House of Delegates provide an update on recent advocacy.