Part 2 Oral Examination
Candidate Confidentiality Agreement
Candidate agrees that he or she will not discuss, disclose, paraphrase, publish or otherwise make known to anyone any test item, information relating to any AOBEM examination, or other confidential property belonging to the AOBEM. Candidate acknowledges and agrees that the AOBEM will consider any violation by the candidate of this confidentiality agreement “irregular conduct” and may result in the non-scoring or voiding of the candidate’s examination and assignment of a “Fail” score and/or other sanctions which the AOBEM may impose in its sole discretion. The AOBEM is also entitled to recover from the candidate all damages and losses incurred by the AOBEM, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs, caused by any irregular conduct of the candidate. The candidate acknowledges and agrees that the AOBEM has no adequate remedy at law and in its sole discretion is entitled to injunctive and/or other relief without bond to prevent or limit any disclosure of test items or other confidential property of the AOBEM, as an additional remedy of the AOBEM.
The testing sessions will be proctored and also have video and audio recording for security and quality control.
The Oral board exams includes three stations with two emergency medicine cases at each station. The examiner will present the cases and may role play, pretending to be the patient or consulting physician. We recommend you "work through" these cases just as you would in your normal practice. All ancillary data (e.g., ECG, radiographs, laboratory results) will be shown on a monitor.
AOBEM does our best to avoid conflicts. If you feel the examiner has a conflict with you (i.e. partner, fellow resident, attending in your residency program, etc.), you must inform the examiner immediately and request a different examiner. Once the exam has started, you cannot request a new examiner.