The Emergency Medicine Advanced Clinical Exam content outline includes:
1. System * and Percentage of the exam
- General Principles, including ethics and patient safety: 1%–5%
- Immunologic Disorders: 1%–5%
- Diseases of the Blood: 5%–10%
- Mental Disorders: 1%–5%
- Diseases of the Nervous System: 10%–15%
- Cardiovascular Disorders: 15%–20%
- Diseases of the Respiratory System: 10%–15%
- Nutritional and Digestive Disorders: 10%–15%
- Gynecologic Disorders: 1%–5%
- Renal, Urinary, Male Reproductive Systems: 5%–10%
- Obstetric Disorders: 1%–5%
- Diseases of the Skin: 1%–5%
- Musculoskeletal and Connective Tissue Disorders: 5%–10%
- Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders: 5%–10%
2. Physician Task and Percentage of exam
- Promoting Health and Health Maintenance: 1%–5%
- Understanding Mechanisms of Disease: 5%–10%
- Establishing a Diagnosis: 25%–35%
- Applying Principles of Management: 45%–55%
3. Patient Age and Percentage of exam
- Birth to 17: 5%–10%
- 18 to 65: 60%–65%
- 66 and older: 15%–20%
*A subset of items across the organ systems includes content that focuses on resuscitation/trauma (~15%) and environmental/toxicologic disorders (~15%).
