Emergency medicine (EM) residency graduates need to pass both the written in service examination and oral certification exam as the final benchmark to achieve board certification through The American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM). Following the successful completion of an accredited emergency medicine residency, candidates for board certification take the written abem inservice examination in the fall after graduation as the first step to becoming an ABEM board diplomate. If successful in this first step, candidates will take the oral certification exam in the spring or fall of the following year.
Many residents and recent graduates spend a significant amount of time and money preparing for the board exams. As a result, EMRA would like to help you to make informed decisions about how best to spend your time and money preparing for the boards. As EMRA neither produces nor promotes any specific board review product, the EMRA Board of Directors has sponsored a survey of recent graduates to assess their overall preparation for the boards and their opinions and comments about specific board review products that they may have used during their preparations. Every effort was made to include a comprehensive list of all textbooks, review courses, tutoring, and online products available.
Preparation:
Many residencies seek to prepare their residents by including written (67%) and oral board (85%) preparation activities. The majorities of the written board preparation activities occurs around the in-service exam (50%), but are often spread throughout the academic calendar. Similarly, residency-sponsored oral board review sessions are clustered around an annual educational activity, such as a retreat (36%), or are administered on a quarterly basis (33%). For this reason AAEM spent two years developing a comprehensive written board review AAEM Emergency Medicine Textbook. Emergency Medicine: A Focused Review of the Core Curriculum is a 22-chapter text like the Rivers emergency medicine textbook written by experts on each topic and targeted at graduating EM residents, emergency physicians approaching recertification and EM residents taking the annual in-service exam. The AAEM textbook also serves as a comprehensive review of emergency medicine for the motivated medical student. The book includes color images and a 225 question practice in-service examination.
Many residents and recent graduates spend a significant amount of time and money preparing for the board exams. As a result, EMRA would like to help you to make informed decisions about how best to spend your time and money preparing for the boards. As EMRA neither produces nor promotes any specific board review product, the EMRA Board of Directors has sponsored a survey of recent graduates to assess their overall preparation for the boards and their opinions and comments about specific board review products that they may have used during their preparations. Every effort was made to include a comprehensive list of all textbooks, review courses, tutoring, and online products available.
Preparation:
Many residencies seek to prepare their residents by including written (67%) and oral board (85%) preparation activities. The majorities of the written board preparation activities occurs around the in-service exam (50%), but are often spread throughout the academic calendar. Similarly, residency-sponsored oral board review sessions are clustered around an annual educational activity, such as a retreat (36%), or are administered on a quarterly basis (33%). For this reason AAEM spent two years developing a comprehensive written board review AAEM Emergency Medicine Textbook. Emergency Medicine: A Focused Review of the Core Curriculum is a 22-chapter text like the Rivers emergency medicine textbook written by experts on each topic and targeted at graduating EM residents, emergency physicians approaching recertification and EM residents taking the annual in-service exam. The AAEM textbook also serves as a comprehensive review of emergency medicine for the motivated medical student. The book includes color images and a 225 question practice in-service examination.
