Score Reports
Started by AspiringDoc8
How could they stop sending score reports? How is this legal?
No worries APMA/APMSA sent strongly worded letters. Residency starts in 5,184,000 seconds, so plenty of time for four organizations to figure out who’s allowed to email a PDF. Wild this became urgent only after everyone needed licensure. Truly flawless coordination.
This is highly egregious of them because, as we all know, there is a severe shortage of podiatrists and we cannot risk not putting them into the workforce without delay otherwise patients will suffer due to lack of access to care for their toenails, especially in memory care nursing homes where excessive feces can build up underneath the toenails when they are allowed to get too long.
So I was able to get them to send the score reports after multiple emails, almost getting the Federation of Podiatric Medical Boards involved (they offered but it got resolved right before they had to intervene), and emailing the Executive Director of NBPME. It looks like they're still working on transitioning our scores over to be sent efficiently. @Bored Snorlax thread/letter mentioned an APMLE portal for Meazure test takers. I had taken all my tests thru Prometric so idk if its a little easier for the NBPME to send Prometric test scores vs Meazure scores. The sooner they can resolve this, the better. Residency grads starting their jobs in another state as well as people legit starting residency are both stuck in this
Thank you for sharing your experience. This is really helpful for others who may run into the same issue.
With FPMB no longer handling APMLE score reporting as of April 1, 2026, the NBPME and Meazure transition seems to be creating real licensing issues. Your situation is especially important because it shows this may affect more than recent Meazure test takers. Older graduates or graduating residents who tested through Prometric may not have Meazure portal access at all.
I was fortunate my state accepted the Meazure portal score report, but not every state board appears to accept that directly. With residency and new jobs starting soon, people should apply for licensure ASAP and confirm directly with their state board how they want APMLE scores submitted so this does not become a last minute bottleneck.
I have been trying for almost 6 weeks at this point. Im a residency grad getting license in another state. Im supposed to start work in August, need to get onboarded at hospitals soonish. I reached out to a board member last week, she assured my they would be sent last week. I get an email back from state board today stating they're still not sent. I text her again with screenshot of email this morning, and she said she'd get back to me still nothing at its 9PM now. THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE. I also emailed CPME a couple of weeks ago too to ask if they could help. They were useless and didnt know anyone. I'm literally going to get screwed if these scores are not sent in the next week or so. Still have to get DEA too after the license. I contacted prometric directly, they dont have our reports anymore its all NBPME. Ive called their number 20 times left a couple of messages, no one picks up the phone, sent at least 10 emails had an email chain with the CPME tagged and literally still nothing. The only person who responded from NBPME is the board member and she has I guess been useless. WTF IS GOING ON?!?!?!? Does anyone work at this organization?
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If you were exempt from taking the Part 2 CSPE (which I am guessing most of us graduating residency were), has there been any issues with licensing? Specifically for California?
Ok the board member got back to me at 1030PM and she and verified by showing me the reports. I mean I really hated to do that, but this was complete insanity. People starting residency could be delayed, and people like me could get screwed and potentially be at risk of losing their job cause we could technically be violating our contracts. I felt I was pretty proactive in applying for license early too.... On the bright side at least we don't have to pay anything to send the scores now.......... God help you if you are just requesting your scores now..... Best of luck to all... FYI I have still never gotten a reply from [email protected] and I sent my first email the first week of April. The last message I left in their office on the phone was " I don't think anyone works here because my experience has been that no one answers emails, no one picks up the phone and no one responds to voicemails." LOL
I can't comment on that yet, but on the application for my state, Florida, its just been (APMLE Part 1, 2 ,3). So I don't think so. Florida state podiatry board has been very good and pretty responsive to emails also I just want to mention, usually getting back within the week and they've answered every email I've sent. I hope I'm not jynxing myself. It's just unlike me to go on a board and complain about people, but this whole situation was truly insanity. Trying to keep the karma balanced LOL.
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