Emergency Medicine Student End-of-Rotation Examinations: Where Are We Now?

Assessment of medical students following the completion of clerkships often involves administration of an examination.1,2 Before 2011 there was no nationally available, standardized examination for students completing emergency medicine (EM) rotations, and EM clerkship directors (CDs) likely used examinations developed within their own institutions. Significant progress has been made and there are currently several options available to CDs for assessment of students completing EM rotations, including the National EM M4 examinations, Version 1 (V1) and Version 2 (V2), and the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME？) EM Advanced Clinical Examination (ACE)