Critical care professionals are hungry to keep learning, developing and strengthening their performance to improve patient outcomes. That’s why education is – and always has been – central to SCCM’s efforts.
Critical Care Congress
The Critical Care Congress is the leading conference focused on critical care.
49th Critical Care Congress
Professional Attendees: 5,526
Exhibitors: 168
Total Attendance: 6,520
Abstracts
Abstract Submissions: 2,124
Abstract Accepted: 1,803
Multiple Learning Opportunities
93 Concurrent Sessions
7 Plenary Sessions
1,731 Research Snapshot Theaters
64 Star Research Presentations
10 Critical Crosstalk Theaters
83 Roundtables
39 Tech Talks
7 Live Broadcast Sessions
4 Flipped Classrooms
Pre-Courses
Each year, Congress offers a variety of precourses on cutting edge topics. Top precourse sessions have included:
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Airway Management in the Critically Ill Patient
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Critical Care Quality Summit
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Current Concepts in Adult Critical Care
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Current Concepts in Pediatric Critical Care
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Bedside Pharmacologic Management
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Disaster Medicine and Toxicologic Emergencies for the Veterinary Critical Care Specialist
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Environmental Emergencies and Disaster Preparedness for the Critical Care Clinician
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Fundamental Critical Care Support: Obstetrics
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Liver Failure in the ICU
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Neurologic Monitoring in the Adult and Pediatric ICUs
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Palliative and End-of-Life Care in the ICU: State of the Art and Skills for the Intensivist Team
Record Breaking Social Media Engagement
2017 – 29M Impressions
2018 – 75M Impressions
2019 – 78M Impressions
Looking Ahead
Critical Care Week
The 50th Critical Care Congress will be a celebration of the advancements of critical care over the last five decades and SCCM’s role in helping push those achievements forward. We also will look to the future of critical care.
HOW YOU CAN SUPPORT OUR MISSION
Sponsorship & Advertising
The Critical Care Congress provides a unique opportunity to market your products and services to an engaged audience of high-level critical care professionals who are the thought leaders and decision-makers in their field. Learn more about sponsorship and advertising opportunities sccm.org/CongressSponsorship
Educational Grants
Become an educational partner by supporting SCCM’s educational activities through an unrestricted medical educational grant. SCCM offers a variety of opportunities that can align to your educational objectives. Contact grants@sccm.org.
“2018 was the first year Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc. exhibited at the SCCM Critical Care Congress. We sought to engage attendees through the exhibition, Research Snapshot Theaters, and symposia. The response from attendees was fantastic – we exceeded our target symposium attendance and engaged with hundreds of specialists, from ICU directors, intensivists, and nurses to infectious diseases pharmacists and attending physicians.”
“We choose to exhibit at SCCM’s Critical Care Congress because it is one of the largest meetings for critical care professionals in North America. It’s the perfect meeting for us because it gives us an opportunity to get in front of those clinicians who are likely to use our products, while also learning about future trends in critical care.”
“Our partnership with SCCM provides us with the exposure we need to target clinicians and increases the awareness SCCM members have about our products.”
OTHER LEARNING ACTIVITIES
In addition to its annual meeting, SCCM offers numerous other programs, providing education and hand-on skills training to students worldwide, through both live courses, online offerings and blended courses.
Critical Care Ultrasound: Adult
+329 Attendees
Critical Care Ultrasound: Pediatric and Neonatal
+135 Attendees
Advanced Critical Care Ultrasound: Adult
+73 Attendees
Critical Care Review: Adult and Pediatrics
+520 Attendees
Echocardiography
+273 Attendees
ICU Liberation
+145 Attendees
Webcasts
+2,000 Attendees Annually
SCCM’s webcasts allow attendees to tune in to engaging, convenient sessions that focus on current issues in critical care, including recently published literature and other hot topics.
Top Webcasts
- Journal Club: Spotlight on Pharmacy (ongoing series)
- ECMO: Strategies and Management for the Multiprofessional Team
- Billing for Critical Care Services in Conjunction with Advanced Practice Providers
- Guidelines at the Bedside: Interpreting and Applying GRADE
Looking Ahead
SCCM is always adding new and exciting educational programming. Visit the SCCM Education Center for the latest offerings.
Best of SCCM
SCCM is developing a Best of SCCM course that will package together the top sessions from its Critical Care Congress and other educational programming.
Journal Club: Critical Care Medicine
A new webcast series featuring in-depth discussion on articles of interest from Critical Care Medicine.
HOW YOU CAN SUPPORT OUR MISSION
Opportunities to support SCCM’s educational activities does not stop with the Critical Care Congress. Find year-round opportunities across many learning platforms to support SCCM’s dedication to improving critical care. Visit sccm.org/sponsorship.
Standardized Licensed Activities
Fundamental Critical Care Support
More than 20 years ago, SCCM launched the Fundamental Critical Care Support (FCCS) course to address the lack of trained intensive care providers (intensivists) in the United States and globally. The course prepares healthcare professionals to assess and manage critically ill patients in the first 24 hours of care.
The Fundamentals line of courses has since expanded to address multiple patient populations and topics. Fundamentals programs are translated into 5 languages and held throughout the world.
20,000 Students Trained in Fundamentals Annually
Recognized worldwide with courses in 39 countries
Expanding the Successful Licensed Activity Model
SCCM’s has expanded its standardized licensed activity model to its other established educational programs:
- Ultrasound: Adult
- Critical Care Ultrasound: Pediatric and Neonatal
- Multiprofessional Critical Care Review Course: Adult (MCCRC)
MCCRC
United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Korea, Japan, China, Spain
Ultrasound
United States, Saudi Arabia, Japan
Looking Ahead
New Standardized Licensed Activities coming soon!
- FCCS: Surgical
- FCCS: Resource Limited
- ICU Liberation
- Current Concepts: Adult
- Mechanical Ventilation/Airway
HOW YOU CAN SUPPORT OUR MISSION
Help Train the Trainers
The train-the-trainer approach utilized in the licensed program model allows for thousands of students to be trained worldwide, expanding greatly the breadth of SCCM’s educational reach. This model is especially important in resource-limited areas where ongoing training becomes a vital tool in improving care long term.
SCCM has created a fund to support training-related expenses, including licenses, textbooks, and eBooks, as well as associated shipping costs. Learn more about how a donation to SCCM can support these types of programs in resource-limited areas. Visit sccm.org/donate.
In 2017, generous gifts helped send 20 faculty to All Africa Anaesthesia Congress in Abuja, Nigeria, to teach six different Fundamentals courses. The courses attracted more than 200 participants from 54 different African countries. This ambitious program would not have been possible without the generous support of many individual and corporate donors whose gifts helped cover the cost of travel for faculty, as well as course materials and equipment for students.
WHY IT MATTERS
The fast-paced world of critical care is constantly evolving, changing, and making new demands of practicing professionals. SCCM provides the educational platforms and substance that helps critical care team members keep pace with changes and successfully integrate new knowledge and competencies into practice.
“As the MCCRC international courses were getting licensed to more and more countries, it became clear that there was a need to harmonize the US and international courses, which we began doing in 2018. Now the international version contains basically the same current and cutting edge content as the US course.”
“I consider SCCM to be the leader in multiprofessional education and advancement for critical care not only in developed countries but also in those under-resourced countries. It delivers on our mission to spread the highest quality learning for critical care medicine worldwide.”