ABPMR Sports Medicine Re-Entry Examination

Sports Medicine Longitudinal Assessment (Sports-LA) is a learning platform that assesses your knowledge, provides immediate feedback, identifies knowledge gaps, and connects you with resources that support lifelong learning.

The Sports Medicine Re-Entry Examination provides a pathway to regain certification if it expires because you did not meet the Sports-LA performance standard.

You may apply for the Sports Re-Entry Examination if:

• Your certification has expired.
• ABPMR has notified you that you are not expected to meet the Sports-LA performance standard, typically at the beginning of year 4 of your current five-year cycle, or you were removed from Sports-LA for deferring too many questions.
• ABPMR notified you at the beginning of year 5 of your current five-year cycle that you did not meet the Sports-LA performance standard.

The examination is offered twice a year, typically in July and November. Passing satisfies the assessment requirement for your five-year continuing certification cycle. If you pass by year 5 of your current cycle and remain current with your PM&R continuing certification requirements, your certification will continue for another five-year cycle.

If your certification has expired, passing the Re-Entry Examination will reinstate it for a new five-year cycle.

Sports-LA is not available as a re-entry pathway.