The mark consists of a red oval band with blue borders; inside the band, beginning at approximately seven o'clock and running around the top ending at approximately five o'clock, are the words BOARD OF CERTIFICATION IN EMERGENCY MEDICINE in blue banded gold letter,; centered at the bottom of the band are the words ORGANIZED IN 1986 in white letters; the middle of the oval shows the back of a slightly out of focus ambulance with the doors open, the lights shining and the figure of a person standing between the open doors; in the vertical center of the oval is a blue banded gold staff with a blue banded gold snake wrapped around it, similar to a caduceus, and in the horizontal center of the oval are the letters BCEM in blue banded white letters.