Fundamental Critical Care Support Hosted Course

Host an FCCS course and prepare healthcare professionals to manage critically ill patients.

The Society of Critical Care Medicine's (SCCM) hosted Fundamental Critical Care Support (FCCS) combines expert-developed lectures with hands-on skill stations to provide nonintensivists and healthcare professionals with the training to manage critically ill patients for the first 24 hours or until appropriate critical care consultation can be arranged. The course concentrates on adult critical care, but also includes separate sections on critical care pregnancy and pediatrics.

Course length: 2 days

Course features:

Flexible learning formats: in-person and online
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)

The course is available in two licensed, director-led formats—traditional hosted and online hosted. The in-person hosted course consists of face-to-face lectures and skill stations. The online hosted course consists of web-based lectures and in-person skill stations.

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 Course

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

Bring the Fundamentals to Your Institution

Hear from Fundamentals instructors, directors, and consultants on the value of Fundamentals training.

In-Person Hosted Online Hosted Lectures and Skill Stations Additional Course Resources

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

Nonprofit tier 3

More than $15,000

$830

$61

Nonprofit tier 2

Between $5,000 and $15,000

$550

$42

Nonprofit tier 1

Less than $5,000

$220

$21

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.

The online hosted course allows sites to more efficiently deliver the didactic educational content and creates flexibility for instructors and learners for the delivery of the hands-on skill stations.

Using a state-of-the-art online learning management system, participants complete the lecture portion of the course over four weeks.
Online lectures prepared by leaders in critical care are delivered by professional presenters.
Course directors and coordinators can monitor the progress of students in real time through their personalized administrative dashboard.

Participants who successfully complete the online licensed course will receive a certificate of completion. In addition, those learners will receive 6.5 continuing education/continuing medical education hours from SCCM for completing the lecture portion of the program.

Licensed institutions will be assessed a fee for each learner, which includes a copy of the current edition of the textbook (print or eBook) and, upon successful completion of the course, a certificate of completion.

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	$3,970	$65
Nonprofit tier 3	More than $15,000	$2,490	$61
Nonprofit tier 2	Between $5,000 and $15,000	$1,650	$42
Nonprofit tier 1	Less than $5,000	$660	$21

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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The FCCS course provides an ideal medium for trauma centers and tertiary/quaternary hospitals to outreach to their community partners.

Babak Sarani, MD, FACS, FCCM

Individual Self-Study Options

For individuals seeking FCCS self-study options, a self-directed course and the textbook are available for purchase as well as the option to search for a course scheduled nearby.

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