About LLSA

One of the requirements of the multi-component Emergency Medicine Continuous Certification (EMCC) program of the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) is that ABEM-certified physicians read and be tested on the contents of 20 designated emergency medicine-related articles each year. This component of the EMCC is entitled “Lifelong Learning and Self-Assessment.”
Each year the titles of the 20 ABEM-designated articles are released. Internet-based exam pertaining to the selected articles is available on the ABEM website.
To be eligible to take the 10-year ABEM recertification exam (now called the Continuous Certification exam) the passage of a variable number of LLSA exams is required