Become Familiar with the ConCert Exam

Key Features of the Exam

• You can register and take the exam during the scheduled ABEM recertification administration in years six through ten of your certification.
• Passing the ConCert Examination early does not, by itself, renew your certificate.
• 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.

Exam Description

• Secure, proctored examination with limited access.
• The exam is administered at over 200 computer-based Pearson VUE testing centers around the United States and Canada.
• The exam contains approximately 205 single-best-answer, standard multiple choice questions.
• Each question is in paragraph form with an answer set containing one correct answer and three or four incorrect answers.
• The ABEM concert exam 2018 is divided into two sections or books, each separately timed. Testing time for the first book is two hours and five minutes, and for the second book is two hours and ten minutes.
• The entire exam appointment takes approximately 5.25 hours to complete.
• Questions focus on what the practicing emergency physician needs to know when treating patients.
• Questions are derived from The Model of the Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine (EM Model).
• Each book of the examination consists of both pictorial and non-pictorial multiple choice questions. Pictorial questions refer to stimulus images such as photos of X-rays, ECGs, rhythm strips, pictures, etc. These images will be presented in a separate tab along with the relevant test question on the computer screen. Sample Exam Question
• You will not need to interpret ultrasound images for pictorial questions on the ConCert Exam LLSA; CT scans may be used as stimuli but for views of the head only.
• Some of the questions on the examination are not scored and are used only to assure future question quality. These field test questions will not be apparent to the candidate. Including them on the examination allows ABEM to conduct research to determine if the questions are appropriate for scoring future examinations.

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Correlation of the Emergency Medicine Resident In-Service Examination with the American Osteopathic Board of Emergency Medicine

The Basic Standards for Residency Training in Emergency Medicine of the American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians (ACOEP) requires all osteopathic emergency medicine (EM) residents to annually participate in the Emergency Medicine In Service Exam.

Residency training programs in other specialties have demonstrated correlations between their specialty in-service examinations and passing future board certification examinations.  In 2009, the American Osteopathic Board of Emergency Medicine (AOBEM) began offering the option of taking Part 1 of the certifying examination to eligible EM residents in their fourth postgraduate year (PGY-4) of EM residency training. Prior to 2009 only EM residency graduates were permitted to participate in the In service examination.

We wish to demonstrate a correlation between the percentile score on the RISE with corresponding scores and the dichotomous outcome of passing or failing on the AOBEM Part 1 exam. We also sought to find a point whereby the likelihood of passing the AOBEM Part 1 was greatest. This will help residency program directors and residents gauge the progress a resident is making towards board certification.


Read More: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3952889/