Oral Examiner and Item Writer Criteria
- Certified by ABEM for the past five years
- Actively participating in the ABEM continuing certification process
- Completed an ACGME- or RCPSC-accredited EM residency
- Clinically active in the practice of EM
Nominees who have served as examiners or writers in the past must meet the same criteria.
An individual can serve as both an examiner and an item writer simultaneously but cannot be nominated for both positions in the same year. There is typically a waiting list to become an examiner or item writer and it often takes two to three consecutive years of nomination to be selected.
ABEM uses the Oral Examiner Attributes to describe a successful examiner and the Item Writer Attributes to describe a successful writer.
The principles of diversity, inclusion, and equity are critical to ABEM’s fulfillment of its mission to ensuring the highest standards in the specialty of Emergency Medicine. ABEM promotes an atmosphere of diversity, inclusion, and equity acknowledging that different perspectives and cultures all contribute to better ideas and solutions for ABEM’s complex challenges. For its volunteers, ABEM seeks representation based on age, race, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, ethnicity, creed, religion, national origin, geographic location, veteran or military status, immigration status, and disability. ABEM encourages nominations of emergency physicians in all types of clinical settings, including community practice locations.