ABEM Rectification or ConCert Examination

ABEM diplomates are required to pass the ABEM recertification examination that assesses knowledge, judgment, and skills on the emergency medicine board review once in years six through ten of their certification. The examination is referred to as the ConCert™ Examination or the ABEM ConCert Exam.

Key Features of the ConCert™ Examination

• Comprehensive, multiple-choice question examination that takes approximately five and one-quarter hours to complete.
• Comprised of questions focused on what the practicing emergency physician needs to know when treating patients. Sample Examination Questions.
• Questions derived from The Model of the Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine (EM Model).
• Secure, proctored examination administered at over 200 computer-based Pearson VUE testing centers around the United States and Canada.
• Physicians register for the ConCert™ Examination through their ABEM MOC Personal Page, then schedule a specific appointment with Pearson VUE to take the examination.
• Passing the ConCert™ Examination early does not renew the diplomate’s certificate. Diplomates can register and take the exam during the scheduled ConCert™ exam administration in years six through ten of their certification.
• Diplomates are not required to meet other MOC requirements to take the ConCert™ Examination. However, certification can only be renewed if all MOC requirements are met.

For more information and ConCert exam preparation see the link below:

https://www.abem.org/public/abem-maintenance-of-certification-%28moc%29/moc-assessment-of-knowledge-judgement-and-skills/concert%28tm%29-examination-overview

In-Training Examination Requirements and Process

The purpose of the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) In-training Examination (ITE) is to provide one piece of information to Emergency Medicine (EM) residents, and their faculty, to supplement other evaluation information that may be used to determine the residents’ degree of preparedness for taking the ABEM Qualifying Examination.

The ABEM ITE is available to:

Physicians enrolled in EM residency programs that are accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) or Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC).

Physicians enrolled in ABEM approved EM/FM, EM/IM, EM/IM/CCM, and EM/Peds combined training programs

Physicians who have advance-matched into such a program

See the Policy on In Service Examination Accessibility for more information.

For residents and advance-matched physicians of newly accredited ACGME programs, the ACGME accreditation decision must be made on or before November 1 of the year prior to the examination administration in order to be eligible to take the ITE.

ABEM board mails ITE registration information to all residency programs in early December, prior to the administration each year. Participating residency programs pay the established examination fee [https://www.abem.org/public/news-notices-exam-dates-fees/important-dates-information/emergency-medicine-examinations-dates-and-fees/in-training-examination-dates-and-fees] for each resident registered to take the In Training Exam in their program. ABEM does not communicate directly with residents in this process.

Programs that participate in an In-service Exam administration will receive detailed examination results for all of their enrolled residents who took the examination.

The Board will be conducting a voluntary pilot of the online administration of the ITE as part of the regular 2016 ITE administration on February 24, 2016; please click here for more information.


Reference: https://www.abem.org/public/emergency-medicine-training/in-training-examination/in-training-examination-requirements-and-process