How the twenty-four credits work.
All twenty-four credits are available online as self-paced material with an assessment and evaluation, completed on your schedule, so that the in-person experience can be fully integrated. Aboard, a morning of sessions on each of the two sea days plus a focused session in each port brings the material to life. The scenic-cruising hours stay open for on-deck practice and rest.
Self-paced online content on the science of stress, burnout, and regulation, with a post-activity assessment and evaluation. Every credit is available online, on your schedule. Opens roughly eight weeks before sailing. Completing it is what reserves your place aboard.
A morning of sessions on each of the two sea days and a focused session in each of the four ports: regulation labs, breath and HRV practice, and trauma-informed self-practice. Because every credit is available online, the room stays fully present.
Seven nights. Four ports. The Inside Passage.
Round-trip from Seattle aboard Celebrity Edge, north through the Inside Passage to Ketchikan, Juneau, Skagway, and Victoria. Sessions on the two sea days and in each port. The scenic-cruising hours are open for practice and rest.
Every session aboard integrates the online material live: a morning of sessions on each of the two sea days plus a session in each of the four ports. All twenty-four credits are available online, so the Endicott Arm and Inside Passage scenic windows stay reserved for optional on-deck practice.
Stress, burnout & the nervous system, in two parts.
All twenty-four credits come from online enduring activities, including material corresponding to the regulation sessions. The days at sea are for live integration only, with no additional CME: the science learned on your schedule, then practiced aboard through breath, somatic work, and regulation.
The two scenic-cruising windows, Endicott Arm and the Inside Passage, are reserved for optional on-deck stillness. They carry no credit, by design, so the most beautiful hours of the sailing belong to you.
- ✓Describe the physiologic basis of the stress response and its role in burnout.
- ✓Apply nervous-system regulation techniques to their own clinical and personal practice.
- ✓Use objective recovery markers such as HRV to guide self-management.
- ✓Identify relational and systemic contributors to chronic stress load.
- ✓Build a sustainable, trauma-informed self-practice that protects against burnout.
The trauma-informed content in this activity is clinician self-practice education. It is not therapy or clinical treatment, and is not a substitute for either.
This is a sensitive topic area. If you are a clinician experiencing significant distress, burnout, or a mental health concern, please reach out for support: 988 (Suicide and Crisis Lifeline) or the Physician Support Line (1-888-409-0141).
The work, then the rest.
Sessions on the sea days and in each port. The scenic hours and the open afternoons are for everything we never get enough of.
The work is real and it is finished early. The deep days are the days at sea. The port sessions are short, with the Inside Passage and the open afternoons left for stillness, time ashore, and rest.
Enjoy.
A few moments.
The credit details.
Credit total
The online enduring activities offer a maximum of 24 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Live integration aboard carries no additional CME.
Online delivery: all 24 credits
Every credit is available as online, self-paced material with a post-activity assessment and evaluation, so that the in-person experience can be fully integrated. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The experience aboard
The live sessions aboard, a morning of sessions on each of the two sea days and a session in each of the four ports, integrate the enduring material in the room and carry no additional CME. All 24 credits come from online enduring activities.
Travel & recreation
The educational content of the online material and the sessions aboard is developed independently of the cruise line and of any travel or commercial sponsor. Travel, lodging, meals, and recreation are not part of the education and are arranged and paid for separately by each participant. The onboard scenic-cruising sessions are optional wellness practice and carry no credit.
Accreditation statement
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the direct providership of The FIT Collective®. The FIT Collective is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Credit designation
The FIT Collective designates this online enduring material for a maximum of 24 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Target audience
This activity is intended for physicians across all specialties. Clinician stress and burnout affect every field, so the primary audience is any practicing physician seeking to understand the physiology of the stress response and to build an evidence-based, protective self-practice. The content also serves physicians who counsel patients on stress and nervous-system health.
Faculty and planners
Ali Novitsky, MD, faculty, The FIT Collective. Mazzy Orban, planner. Bridget Godwin, MD, planner and reviewer.
Disclosure of financial relationships
The FIT Collective requires everyone in a position to control educational content for this activity, including planners, faculty, and reviewers, to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies within the prior 24 months. Ali Novitsky, MD has nothing to disclose. Bridget Godwin, MD has nothing to disclose. All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated.
Commercial support
No commercial support was received for this activity.
Americans with Disabilities Act
Event staff will be glad to assist you with any special needs (physical, dietary, etc.) during the onboard portion of this activity. Please contact Mazzy Orban prior to the live event at 616-384-9279 or mazzy@thefitcollective.com.
for access to the online enduring activities and live integration aboard. All twenty-four credits come from the enduring activities. The live sessions carry no additional CME.
Includes access to accredited enduring activities on the Health Hub.
- ✓This is the CME tuition. It does not include cruise fare.
- ✓All-inclusive stateroom rates for our group are available below.
- ✓Once you enroll, your email gives you the next steps to book your stateroom.
- ✓Every physician is welcome, women and men alike.
- ✓Partners and families are welcome to cruise with you.
HSA/FSA eligibility through Truemed
Your retreat registration may qualify as an eligible HSA/FSA expense through Truemed. Eligibility is based on individual circumstances and is not guaranteed.
See if you qualify with Truemed →Refund policy: full refunds are available on request through April 1, 2027, minus a $100 processing fee. No refunds after April 1, 2027.
Reserve Your Place →Cabins are limited. One sailing only.
Your stateroom, all-inclusive.
Stateroom fare is independent of the CME program cost. After booking your program, you will get an email with the next steps to reserve your cabin.