Multidisciplinary Critical Care Fellows Conference - ABA, ABS & ABTS MOC Eligible 2026 - 2/19/2026

Thursday, February 19, 2026, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Nashville, TN

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00 hours), ABA MOCA Part 2 (1.00 hours), ABS CC (1.00 hours), ABTS CC (1.00 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (1.00 hours)

The Multidisciplinary Critical Care Fellows Conference is offered every Thursday from 12:00 to 1:00 pm in 9T3 Critical Care Tower at VUMC. Presentations by Vanderbilt faculty focus the latest research and discussion of challenging cases. The conference is a weekly educational conference designed to provide continuing education in topics relevant to the surgical critical care provider. The primary audience are the anesthesia and surgical critical care fellows, as well as all supporting faculty in the Departments of Anesthesia and Surgery. Speakers are local experts at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Topics range from ICU management strategies and medical billing, to advanced clinical matters (e.g. total extracorporeal membrane oxygenation [ECMO], advanced ventilator strategies, renal replacement therapy, etc.). These lectures run 1 hour in length, and typically review the relevant and emerging literature on the subject..

Objective(s): 1 Evidence-based knowledge and skills that support best practice critical care, emergency general surgery, and trauma surgery 2 Strategies to evaluate and manage complex surgical critical care cases 3 Use of key components of effective surgical decision-making in practice
Location: Nashville, TN
Specialties: Anesthesiology, Section of Surgical Sciences, Surgery, Thoracic Surgery

Faculty Disclosures:
Stephen P Gondek, MD (Consulting Fee-Octapharma - 08/22/2025)
Jill R Streams, MD (Grant or research support-CSL Behring CSL Behring|Speakers Bureau-PryTime Medical (Relationship has ended) - 08/09/2025)
Robel T Beyene, MD (Nothing to disclose - 08/25/2025)

1. Evidence-based knowledge and skills that support best practice critical care, emergency general surgery, and trauma surgery
2. Strategies to evaluate and manage complex surgical critical care cases
3. Use of key components of effective surgical decision-making in practice

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center designates this live activity for a maximum 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This activity contributes to the CME component of the American Board of Anesthesiology’s redesigned Maintenance of Certification in Anesthesiology^TM (MOCA^®) program, known as MOCA 2.0^®. Please consult the ABA website, www.theABA.org, for a list of all MOCA 2.0 requirements.

Successful completion of this CME activity enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME requirement of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABS credit.

Successful completion of this CME activity enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME requirements of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery’s Continuing Certification program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABTS credit.

PLEASE NOTE: This regularly scheduled series does not award MOC II, Continuous Certification, Continuing Certification or MOCA^® credit for the month of December. MOC II, Continuous Certification, Continuing Certification, and MOCA^® credit can only be reported within the same year the credit was earned.