American Bd Of Emergency Medicine

Abem offers a continuing certification process in which physicians participate to maintain their certification. Abms sets standards for a continuing certification process that promotes continuous learning and periodic assessment. Each of the 24 abms member boards are required to adopt the abms continuing certification standards. To maintain certification beyond an abem certificate's 5-year expiration date, abem- certified physicians must participate in each component of continuing certification as follows: 1) continuously maintain medical licensure in compliance with the abem policy on medical licensure; 2) complete myemcert modules (4 every 5 years); and 3) for clinically active diplomates, meet the requirements of the improvement in medical practice component, which requires participation in a medically relevant quality improvement activity (1 every 5 years).

Abem develops and administers an in-training examination. This multiple- choice question examination is offered annually for a week in february to residents in acgme-accredited and rcpsc-accredited emergency medicine residency programs. The in-training examination is a standardized test that residents and program faculty can use to predict the likelihood of an individual resident passing the written qualifying examination.