EMCC Assessment of Cognitive Expertise (ConCert Examination)

ConCert Examination Description and Content Specifications

ConCert Examination Requirements and Process   

Differences Between LLSA and ConCert

The Model of the Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine

 

Component three of the EMCC program, the Continuous Certification (ConCert) examination, is available annually.  Like the previous recertification examination, it measures the knowledge base for the practice of Emergency Medicine (EM).

 

·     The ConCert examination is a comprehensive examination based on the EM Model.

·     ConCert will typically occur in the tenth year of each diplomate’s EMCC cycle.

·     ConCert is a half-day examination.

·     ConCert is administered at computer-based testing centers around the country.

 

In developing the EMCC program, ABEM created a strong link between the LLSA component and the ConCert exam, basing up to 40% of the exam content on prior years’ LLSA readings.  ABEM’s intent was to increase the value of EMCC to ABEM diplomates.  Some diplomates, however, expressed concern that they would be responsible for knowing the content of up to 200 specific articles when taking the ConCert examination. 

 

The Board considered diplomates’ concerns and reassessed the relationship between LLSA and the ConCert examination, exploring whether appropriate changes could be made to better meet the Board’s goals and the needs of its diplomates.  As a result, the required link between previous LLSA readings and the development of ConCert examinations was removed.

 

Beginning in 2007, ConCert examinations have been developed without a reliance on the identified LLSA readings.  Although LLSA questions no longer appear on the ConCert examination, similar concepts may still be represented as they become the standards for practice in EM.

 

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