About Critical Care Education Foundation

Critical Care Education Foundation (CCEF) was setup in 2002 as a platform facilitating high quality critical care training of doctors and nurses in developing countries.
 

In 2003, CCEF set up the College of Critical Care Medicine to plan and execute its academic programs. The College designs and conducts a structured and supervised 2 years Fellowship Examination in Critical Care Medicine. This examination was setup with the help of Dr. Bala Venkatesh (Past President of the Australian College of Critical Care Medicine (JFICM) and few other prominent Intensivists from Australia and India. It is accredited by the International Board of Medicine and Surgery (IBMS) Tampa, Florida, USA, as an examination of International standards.

The College of Critical Care Medicine is guided by an Academic Council consisting of prominent Intensivists from across India and around the world who are passionate about developing Critical Care in this part of the world.  The Council is a think-tank body that is continuously working to enrich critical care education in India. The Academic Council is headed by Dr. Kameshwarao KV (Chairman,Hyderabad) and has as its Members Dr. Anurag Mahajan (Secretary,Delhi), Dr. Vivek Joshi (Vice-Chairman, Indore), Dr. Nikhilesh Jain (Indore), Dr. Prachee Sathe (Pune), Dr. Ankit Jain (London, UK), Dr. Aditi Jain (Tronto, Canada), Dr Ankur Gupta (Indore). It has as advisors, Dr. Mayur Patel (Mumbai) and Dr. Pratibha Dileep (Ahmedabad).

 

The College of Critical Care Medicine and CCEF partner with like minded organizations to further its objective of spreading high quality Critical Care training across the globe.  With Accrete Critical Care international LLP, it has been organizing and conducting the very popular "Sherlock Holmes approach to Mastering Critical Care" series of programs on various topics. These are 1-3 days programs that have a different flavour to teaching bedside critical care. These highly interactive classes stress on the power and importance of "Observation" and "Deducation" in approaching various problems at the bedside.

 

Another popular Program is the "Mastering Series"dedicated to a particular component of critical care such as 

  • Mastering Fluid & Electrolytes,
  • Mastering Arterial Blood Gas interpretation,
  • Mastering ECGs/ EKGs,
  • Mastering Mechanical ventilation including Non-invasive ventilation
  • Mastering the "Sherlock Holmes approach to the critically ill patient" etc.

 

The College organizes:

  • Educational workshops and seminars/ symposium for practicing clinicians,
  • Organizes Mock Examinations for exam going candidates,
  • Organizes Crash Courses in Critical Care,
  • Organizes Orientation Programs for trainees,
  • Creates world class online e-learning courses that are authoritative, Interactive and self-paced.
  • Conducts onsite assessment of various ICUs for suitability as training centres for its Fellowship program.

 

Accrete Critical Care International LLP, a partner organization that works closely with CCEF, maintains this biggest “Self assessment” Website dedicated to Critical Care. It also works with hospitals towards up-liftment of their ICUs across India. CCEF and Accrete Critical Care international LLP have conducted more than 40 training programs/ Workshops for senior doctos of level of Professors/Assistant Professors and heads of ICU in India and neighbouring countries such as Myanmar and Sri Lanka. It has arranged a hand-on training for doctors from Myanmar in India at the apollo Hospital, Navi Mumbai.

Along with Zuventus Pharmaceuticals, CCEF has conducted over 30 “CCEF-Zuventus Residential training Program in Critical Care Medicine”. Through this very popular 3-4 days of intense, yet interactive training program, more than 1000 practicing physicians across India, got trained in “Sherlock Holmes approach to a Critically ill patient”. Similarly, with Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals and Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, CCEF conducted training programs/ Workshops for doctors in other countries on multiple occasions.

The College of Critical Care Medicine under CCEF is guided by its Academic Council. This Council consists of prominent and dedicated Intensivists from across the country, who share a common vision- " Making high quality, compassionate critical care available to everyone by training doctors and nurses". The Academic Council is a think-tank body that is continuously working to enrich critical care education in India.

Critical Care Education Foundation is a registered, not-for-profit, charitable trust that focuses on all aspects related to critical care training and education. CCEF is keen to work with like minded individuals and organizations from around the world, to help doctors and nurses get the best training in critical care. CCEF is also keen to work with organizations/ pharmaceutical companies in their training programs across developing countries.