Article Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "pk": 48651,
    "title": "Simulation Curriculum Improves Emergency Medicine Resident Preparedness for the New American Board of Emergency Medicine Certifying Exam",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>In 2024, the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) announced the launch of a new certifying exam that emergency medicine (EM) residency graduates must pass to achieve specialty certification. To date, there are no comprehensive curricula published in the available literature to aid residents in exam preparation.</p>\n<p><strong>Methods: </strong>In this pre-post pilot study, 44% (24/55) of postgraduate year 1 (PGY-1) through PGY-4 EM residents at a single site participated in a four-hour simulated certifying exam curriculum. Learners were asked to complete a four-point Likert scale survey rating self-reported preparedness (very unlikely – very likely) to take the ABEM Certifying Exam, as well as comfort with the ABEM tested competencies, preceding and following the simulation session.</p>\n<p><strong>Results: </strong>Survey respondents (n = 21; 87.5%) reported an improvement in overall preparedness to take the ABEM Certifying Exam, yielding a pre-post mean difference score of +1.2 (1.9 [unlikely] pre to 3.1 [likely] post, P &lt; .001). Additionally, there was an improvement in all ABEM-tested competencies; pre-post mean difference score ranged from +0.5 (3.0 pre to 3.5 post) for patient-centered communication to +1.1 (2.2 pre to 3.3 post) for clinical decision-making (P &lt; .001 for all competencies).</p>\n<p><strong>Conclusion:</strong> Given the critical need, and self-reported improvement in preparedness, EM training programs nationwide could consider incorporating a similar simulation curriculum into their didactic experience to help better prepare their learners for the new ABEM Certifying Exam. </p>",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY 4.0",
        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Simulation"
        },
        {
            "word": "Exam Preparation"
        },
        {
            "word": "emergency medicine boards"
        },
        {
            "word": "ABEM"
        },
        {
            "word": "Certifying Exam"
        },
        {
            "word": "Peer Roleplay"
        },
        {
            "word": "Medical Simulation"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Education",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3gd2g1c7",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Ian",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Batson",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Pennsylvania, Department of Emergency Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Chinezimuzo",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Ihenatu",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Pennsylvania, Department of Emergency Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Frances",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Shofer",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Pennsylvania, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Matthew",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Magda",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Pennsylvania, Department of Emergency Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Michael",
            "middle_name": "E",
            "last_name": "Abboud",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Pennsylvania, Department of Emergency Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Lauren",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Conlon",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Pennsylvania, Department of Emergency Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Suzana",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Tsao",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Pennsylvania, Department of Emergency Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Mira",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Mamtani",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Pennsylvania, Department of Emergency Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2025-06-17T03:16:59.430000+02:00",
    "date_accepted": "2025-10-01T03:56:53.941000+02:00",
    "date_published": "2026-01-04T03:23:00+01:00",
    "render_galley": null,
    "galleys": [
        {
            "label": "PDF",
            "type": "pdf",
            "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/48651/galley/47903/download/"
        }
    ]
}