Estimated Emergency Medicine Board Pass Rates By Program

The American Board of Emergency Medicine maintains a higher pass rate year over year than many other specialty areas. For the last five years, pass rates for the ABEM exam have held steady between 90 and 95%. According to a survey published by the Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association, candidates who prepared for the exam using online board preparation materials had higher average scores than those who prepared using written or oral exam prep courses.

• Palmetto Health/University of South Carolina School of Medicine99 %
• Brigham and Womens Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School99 %
• John H Stroger Hospital of Cook County99 %
• New York Presbyterian Hospital99 %
• University of North Carolina Hospitals99 %
• Stanford University Hospital/Kaiser Permanente Medical Center99 %
• College of Medicine Mayo Clinic (Rochester)99 %
• Georgetown University Hospital/Washington Hospital Center99 %
• Oregon Health & Science University99 %
• Johns Hopkins University98 %
• Baystate Medical Center/Tufts University School of Medicine98 %
• New York University School of Medicine98 %
• UPMC Medical Education98 %
• University of Washington98 %
• University of Chicago98 %
• Yale-New Haven Medical Center98 %
• University Hospital/University of Cincinnati College of Medicine98 %
• Vanderbilt University97 %
• Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center97 %
• Duke University Hospital97 %
• McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University97 %
• Carolinas Medical Center97 %
• Emory University97 %
• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School97 %
• University of California (San Francisco)/San Francisco General Hospital97 %
• University of Michigan96 %
• Indiana University School of Medicine96 %
• Denver Health Medical Center96 %
• University of Pennsylvania96 %
• Los Angeles County-Harbor-UCLA Medical Center94 %
• UCLA Medical Center/Olive View94 %
• University of New Mexico94 %
• University of Utah93 %
• Grand Rapids Medical Education Partners/Michigan State University93 %
• St Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital Center92 %
• University of Nevada School of Medicine92 %
• SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn92 %
• Boston Medical Center92 %
• Brown University92 %
• Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Case Medical Center91 %
• Maricopa Medical Center90 %
• Ohio State University Hospital90 %
• Wake Forest University School of Medicine90 %
• University of Maryland90 %
• George Washington University90 %
• University of California (Davis) Health System89 %
• University of Southern California/LAC+USC Medical Center89 %
• University of California (Irvine)89 %
• University of Florida89 %
• NSLIJHS/Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine at Long Island Jewish Medical Center89 %
• Temple University Hospital89 %
• University of Alabama Medical Center89 %
• Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai89 %
• William Beaumont Hospital89 %
• Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Jacobi/Montefiore)88 %
• Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals88 %
• University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago88 %
• University of Arizona88 %
• Kern Medical Center88 %
• Case Western Reserve University (MetroHealth)88 %
• University of California (San Diego)87 %
• Madigan Healthcare System87 %
• University of Texas Southwestern Medical School (Austin)87 %
• University of Texas at Houston87 %
• Loma Linda University87 %
• Maine Medical Center86 %
• St Louis University School of Medicine86 %
• Albany Medical Center86 %
• University of Puerto Rico86 %
• University of Tennessee College of Medicine at Chattanooga86 %
• University of South Florida Morsani86 %
• Vidant Medical Center/East Carolina University85 %
• Allegheny General Hospital-Western Pennsylvania Hospital Medical Education Consortium (AGH)85 %
• Detroit Medical Center/Wayne State University (Detroit Receiving Hospital)85 %
• University of Kentucky College of Medicine85 %
• Washington University/B-JH/SLCH Consortium85 %
• University of Wisconsin85 %
• Medical University of South Carolina85 %
• SUNY at Stony Brook84 %
• Medical College of Georgia84 %
• NSLIJHS/Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine at North Shore University Hospital84 %
• University of Texas School of Medicine at San Antonio84 %
• Henry Ford Hospital/Wayne State University83 %
• Drexel University College of Medicine/Hahnemann University Hospital83 %
• Kaiser Permanente Southern California83 %
• Baylor College of Medicine83 %
• UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School83 %
• West Virginia University83 %
• University of California (San Francisco)/Fresno82 %
• Alameda County Medical Center82 %
• Albert Einstein Healthcare Network82 %
• University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria82 %
• Hennepin County Medical Center82 %
• New York Medical College (Metropolitan)82 %
• Presence Resurrection Medical Center82 %
• University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics81 %
• Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center81 %
• HealthPartners Institute for Medical Education81 %
• SUNY Upstate Medical University81 %
• University of Texas Southwestern Medical School81 %
• University of Nebraska Medical Center81 %
• University of Virginia81 %
• UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School81 %
• Thomas Jefferson University80 %
• Western Michigan University School of Medicine80 %
• University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences80 %
• University of Louisville80 %
• University of Rochester79 %
• Eastern Virginia Medical School79 %
• University of Arizona College of Medicine at South Campus79 %
• San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium79 %
• University of Massachusetts79 %
• University of Kansas School of Medicine79 %
• University of Florida College of Medicine Jacksonville79 %
• John Peter Smith Hospital (Tarrant County Hospital District)78 %
• New York Hospital Medical Center of Queens/Cornell University Medical College77 %
• Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Paul L Foster School of Medicine77 %
• University of Oklahoma College of Medicine-Tulsa76 %
• New York Methodist Hospital76 %
• Akron General Medical Center/NEOMED76 %
• Central Michigan University College of Medicine76 %
• Southern Illinois University School of Medicine76 %
• University of Toledo75 %
• Christiana Care Health Services75 %
• Naval Medical Center (San Diego)75 %
• Christus Spohn Memorial Hospital75 %
• York Hospital74 %
• University of Connecticut74 %
• Advocate Christ Medical Center74 %
• University of Missouri at Kansas City74 %
• Maimonides Medical Center74 %
• Virginia Commonwealth University Health System74 %
• St John Hospital and Medical Center74 %
• St Lukes Hospital74 %
• Wright State University73 %
• Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center73 %
• Earl K Long Medical Center/Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge)73 %
• Summa Health System/NEOMED73 %
• Darnall Army Medical Center73 %
• Cooper Medical School of Rowan University/Cooper University Hospital73 %
• Florida Hospital Medical Center72 %
• Genesys Regional Medical Center72 %
• Texas A&M; College of Medicine-Scott and White72 %
• University of Mississippi Medical Center72 %
• Staten Island University Hospital72 %
• Kaweah Delta Health Care District (KDHCD)71 %
• Brooklyn Hospital Center71 %
• Carilion Clinic-Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine71 %
• Detroit Medical Center/Wayne State University (Sinai-Grace Hospital)71 %
• Hackensack University Medical Center71 %
• Hospital Episcopal San Lucas/Ponce School of Medicine71 %
• Louisiana State University71 %
• Naval Medical Center (Portsmouth)70 %
• Newark Beth Israel Medical Center70 %
• Geisinger Health System70 %
• Lehigh Valley Health Network/University of South Florida College of Medicine69 %
• Mercy St Vincent Medical Center/Mercy Health Partners69 %
• Atlantic Health (Morristown)69 %
• Orlando Health69 %
• Sparrow Hospital/Michigan State University68 %
• University at Buffalo68 %
• Louisiana State University (Shreveport)68 %
• Penn State University/Milton S Hershey Medical Center67 %