Welcome to the Resident ICU (RICU) education web site! The Resident ICU web site comprises two programs designed
to help residents improve their knowledge base during their critical care rotation.
The Adult ICU (AICU) program developed for the adult critical care
resident rotation and the Pediatric ICU (PICU) program developed
for the pediatric critical care rotation.
The site permits free worldwide access to educational material in the form of Microsoft PowerPoint presentations on core curriculum topics for
medical
students and residents in Critical Care
Medicine. Experts in the
corresponding fields have authored these presentations.
The presentations are designed for self-study or can be used as a template for didactic sessions conducted by attending physicians or their designees. This permits the
incorporation of examples from your current ICU patients, the unique demographics at
your institution and regional practice styles into your discussion or presentations.
If you are a faculty member at an accredited
residency program and wish to be the Site Director for your program, please complete the
demographic form and you will be assigned a log-on and password for your site. This will
permit the Site Director to sign up house staff and provide them with access to the
content and exams. It also permits the Site Director to track the trainee’s access of
the content and performance on the exam. If you are a resident/medical student at an
accredited program, your designated Site Director will assign a log-on and password to you.
AICU:
The Graduate and Resident Education Committee of the SCCM have developed the Adult
ICU (AICU) course. AICU requires the user to register with the SCCM for a Log-on
and password. If the user is from a designated training program, the Site Director
at the training program will be able to assign the resident/fellow with a log-on
and password. If you are not part of a training program, but would like to access
the AICU content, please request a log-on and password from the SCCM and you will
be sent one by SCCM staff. The log-on and password also allow you and your Site
Director to track the presentations that you have accessed.
AICU contains a pre- and post- test to assess the knowledge base of the trainee
and to objectively determine knowledge accrual during the course of the rotation.
The same unique log-on and password will permit access to these examinations. If
you are in a training program, your Site Director will have access to your examination
scores.
For individuals who are not in North American training programs, access to the AICU content
and exams as an individual user requires a brief online form to be submitted and you will
receive a log-on and password from SCCM.
PICU:
The Pediatric Resident Education Committee, a sub-committee of the Pediatric
Section of the SCCM, has developed Pediatric ICU (PICU) course. It offers access to presentations
on a wide range of critical care topics. It also has a post-test, which residents
can take at the end of their PICU rotation. Site Directors can request a log-on
and password from the SCCM and this gives them the ability to sign up residents
to take the test and access to the residents’ test scores.
PICU also offers Portuguese and German translations
of the presentations: links to these courses are found on the home page of PICU
course.
Critical care continues to be an exciting and evolving field and we hope you share our goal
of better patient care through better education. The contents of the presentations have been
peer-reviewed by members of the committees and are meant solely for educational purposes. As
always, decisions regarding diagnosis, the attending
physician should
make therapy and prognosis and these presentations should not be construed as advice regarding patient care.
If you are interested in contributing a presentation on a critical care topic, please
contact the appropriate committee co-chairs listed below. We encourage you to send us feedback and suggestions we can incorporate in future
enhancements to this site. We see this as an evolving educational endeavor.
The information posted in RICU is not to be considered medical advice and not
intended as to replacement of consultation with a qualified medical professional or
independent scientific research of current medical literature. SCCM does not endorse
any medications, products, procedures, equipment or treatments discussed herein. |