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Certified, level by level.
A professional certification set by practising embryologists, on the parts of the job a degree doesn't teach. Three levels of exam across one published syllabus. Pass to be certified at that level.
Levels and prices
One exam per level. One price per sitting.
Level 1
Foundation
Knows what happens and why. The whole syllabus, asked plainly.
US$200
Level 2
Practitioner
Applies it under real conditions — timing, troubleshooting and judgement calls at the bench.
US$350
Level 3
Advanced
Designs the system others work in — investigation, policy and the reasoning behind the rules.
US$500
Coming soon
- Fifty multiple-choice questions, five from each of the ten areas below.
- 75 minutes. Answers are saved as you give them; when the clock stops, every saved answer is marked.
- 70% to pass. Pass, and the certificate for that level is issued at once.
- One sitting per payment. To sit again, you enrol again, and the paper is drawn afresh.
- Prices are in US dollars. In India the exam is charged in rupees, plus 18% GST.
- All fees are final. Refunds and cancellations
Levels open as each question bank is complete: every area needs its full set of reviewed questions before a paper can be drawn. Sign in to see which levels are open now.
The curriculum
Ten areas, in the order a lab actually needs them.
- 01
The lab, end to end
Workflow from egg collection to transfer: what happens, why the order matters, and where errors enter. Witnessing and identity as the first skill, not the last.
- 02
Oocyte morphology
Maturity (GV, MI, MII), cumulus assessment, and the dysmorphisms — vacuoles, SER clusters, refractile bodies, dark cytoplasm — with what the evidence says each does and doesn't predict.
- 03
Fertilisation & PN scoring
Normal and abnormal fertilisation, pronuclear size, alignment and timing, 1PN and 3PN decisions, failed fertilisation and rescue ICSI.
- 04
Cleavage-stage embryos
Cell number by day, fragmentation, symmetry, multinucleation, compaction. Day-3 grading systems and where they disagree.
- 05
Blastocysts & Gardner grading
Expansion, inner cell mass, trophectoderm, hatching — and the difference between a grade and a prognosis.
- 06
Cryopreservation
Vitrification and warming: the chemistry in plain terms, timing discipline, loading volume, the plunge, survival assessment and re-expansion.
- 07
Micromanipulation
ICSI step by step — oocyte orientation, membrane breakage, degeneration and how to reduce it — plus the principles of biopsy and assisted hatching.
- 08
The culture system
Media, oil, dishes, gas, incubators: what each contributes, how each fails, and how to prove your system is behaving.
- 09
Quality: KPIs, QC and CAPA
Which indicators to track and why, benchmarks and their limits, daily QC that actually protects embryos, and how to investigate and document a dip.
- 10
Ethics, consent and records
Consent for storage and disposition, traceability, incident disclosure, and the professional judgement no protocol covers.
How it works
One syllabus, three depths.
Choose a level
Foundation, Practitioner or Advanced. Each covers all ten areas of the syllabus; the level sets how deep the questions go.
Prepare your way
We publish the syllabus, not the reading. Prepare from your training, your lab and the literature, as for any professional exam.
Sit the exam
Fifty multiple-choice questions in 75 minutes, 70% to pass. Pass, and the certificate is yours, with a public page anyone can check.
Your results live in your account. Sign in to see each level's syllabus.
Why we're building this
Most embryologists learn the craft standing next to someone busier than they are. It works — and it also means technique, judgement and quality habits vary enormously between labs, which is exactly what shows up later in the numbers.
This track is the assessment side of the same idea as our free tools: give the profession a clear standard, and the rest follows. Nothing here replaces supervised training or your lab's own SOPs; it tests that the reasoning behind them is in place.
Think the syllabus is missing something? Tell us. It is reviewed every year.