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SCCM Pod-542: Strengthening Confidence and Collaboration Through Fundamentals Training

2025/5/24
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Mark Hamill: 最初，我将FCCS项目引入机构是为了给轮转到外科重症监护病房的住院医师提供基础知识，确保每个人都掌握重症监护的基本概念。随后，内科项目和护理项目也加入了进来，希望他们的住院医师和新ICU护士也能参与该项目。在十年内，该项目从一年一次发展到一月一次，增长速度惊人。我对教育，特别是重症监护教育充满热情，因为很多人不了解ICU的情况。FCCS项目的目的是让人们能够识别出病情可能恶化或正在恶化的患者，并及早干预，以防止病情进一步恶化。

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Dr. Hamill's journey into Fundamentals Programs began with a perceived lack of basic critical care education at his institution. He initiated a program for surgical ICU residents, which expanded to include internal medicine residents, nurses, and others over 10 years. His passion for critical care education and the program's ability to positively impact many lives drives his involvement.
  • Lack of basic critical care education for GME trainees prompted program initiation.
  • Program initially designed as a primer for surgical ICU residents.
  • Expanded over 10 years to include various medical disciplines and healthcare professionals.
  • Dr. Hamill's passion for critical care education and the program's positive global impact highlighted.

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Mark E. Hamill, MD, FCCM, a trauma surgeon, intensivist, and past chair of the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s (SCCM) Fundamental Critical Care Support (FCCS) Committee, discusses the evolution, impact, and future of training of critical care.

In this SCCM podcast, Dr. Hamill reflects on his decade-long journey with FCCS, beginning with local implementation at his former institution to eventually leading national and international Fundamentals efforts. He shares powerful stories from training initiatives in Rwanda, Palestine, and war-time Ukraine—highlighting the program’s global reach and ability to empower frontline clinicians.

Central to the discussion is Dr. Hamill’s published study, “Impact of Standardized Multidisciplinary Critical Care Training on Confidence with Critical Illness and Attitudes Towards Interprofessional Education and Multidisciplinary Care” (Hamill ME, et al. J Intensive Care Med. 2024;39:320-327). The study analyzed survey data from 328 multidisciplinary learners and demonstrated significant increases in participants’ self-assessed confidence across key critical care domains—including sepsis, respiratory failure, shock, and neurologic illness—after completing FCCS. The findings support what many instructors have long observed anecdotally: FCCS builds competence, fosters interprofessional collaboration, and enhances learners’ readiness to respond to critically ill patients.

Dr. Hamill also explains the study’s methodology, including retrospective precourse analysis and a three-month follow-up, and shares insights about future research plans involving simulation-based evaluation to assess knowledge retention and behavior change.

Whether you are considering hosting a Fundamentals course, becoming an instructor, or expanding your training programs, this podcast episode offers compelling evidence of FCCS’s lasting value in skills acquisition and elevating the culture of care.