LLSA and ConCert

LLSA tests are designed to promote learning, while the ConCert examination is designed to test working knowledge of EM clinical practice. The LLSA tests will feel very different from the ConCert examinations, which continue to feel like the recertification examinations that ABEM gave in the past. The Lifelong Learning and Self Assessment test is an online, on-demand, self-assessment test. The LLSA tests are detailed and focused to encourage learning and careful consideration of the material in the readings. The LLSA tests will tend to question more specific information than will be found on the ConCert examination. LLSA tests are learning-focused; ConCert examinations are focused on assessing knowledge needed for clinical practice. As the concepts represented in the LLSA readings become the standards for practice in Emergency Medicine, those concepts will be tested on the ConCert examination.