Maintaining your ABEM Certification

As Board-Certified Emergency Physician you will have to maintain your ABEM certification . In order to do so, you will have to participate in ABEM's four-component Emergency Medicine Continuous Certification program .

For the second component of the Certification program - Lifelong Learning and Self-Assessment or LLSA , you will be required to take the annual tests. These tests are based on selected readings from the emergency medicine literature. The test is scored in the following manner: achieve a passing grade—90% or better on the 2007 test; 85% or better on the 2008, 2009, and 2010 tests.

The American Board of Emergency Medicine or ABEM posts the reading list for each on the ABEM website :

2007 Reading List
2008 Reading List
2009 Reading List
2010 Reading List

ABEM LLSA

The recertification process for emergency physicians gets more demanding every year, particularly with all the increased attention to evidence-based medicine, LLSA Preparation. With EBM in mind, the ABEM LLSA chooses 20 Lifelong Learning and Self Assessment (LLSA) articles each year. By imposing annual testing requirements for these articles, the ABEM LLSA hopes to ensure that you are up-to-date on the standard of care for all major clinical categories in your practice environment.

ABEM

ABEM provides emergency medicine residents with a succinct, didactic review of key emergency medicine concepts for the qualifying exam. This elegantly designed peer-reviewed course is intended strengthen your ABEM knowledge and prepare you for the exam.