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PEER Challenge

Congratulations to Good Samaritan as the 2025 PEER Challenge winner

Good Samaritan defeated Vanderbilt in the PEER Ultimate Championship Series to become our first 2-time PEER Challenge Champions.

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Peer Challenge Bracket (Round 5) PDF ↑

Final bracket results

PEER Challenge Bracket: Round 5 (PDF)

The PEER Challenge is a single elimination tournament that matches up residency programs against each other in a showdown of clinical knowledge.

The winning program is crowned after a live competition, the PEER Ultimate Championship, each year at ACEP Scientific Assembly. In addition to valuable bragging rights, the grand prize includes a full year of complimentary PEERprep for Programs.

 

The Competition

Each round features clinical questions from the PEER suite of board prep content. Every match will be moderated by one of the PEER Editors-in-Chief.

Speed matters — the quicker a question is answered, the more points earned.

Multiple residents from each program can play in the first three rounds — the program’s score is averaged, and different residents can play in each round.

PEER Board Prep

The Prizes

  • Complimentary registration for four residents to ACEP25 for each of the final four residency programs
  • Free PEERprep for Programs for the entire winning program for the 2026-2027 academic year
  • Bragging rights for an entire year, plus some championship bling!

 

The 2025 Winners

Congrats to the 2025 PEER Challenge winners and the Good Samaritan participants:

  • Christopher DiNicola, DO
  • Sherif Shehata, MD
  • Sunil Shah, MD
  • Arthur Speziale, DO

Congrats to the 2024 PEER Challenge winners

After score verification, the inaugural ACEP24 PEER Ultimate Championship resulted in a tie. Good Samaritan University Hospital (New York) and the University of Central Florida/HCA Florida Healthcare now share the title as the smartest emergency medicine residency programs in the world!

Good Samaritan University Hospital in New York

  • Paxton P. Aung, DO
  • Sunil Shah, MD, MBA
  • Sherif Shehata, MD
  • Arthur Speziale, DO

University of Central Florida/HCA Florida Healthcare

  • Natalie Diers, MD
  • Drake Dixon, MD
  • Darielys Mejias Morales, MD
  • Nicole Vuong, MD
 
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