Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)

About Us:
The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) is a Chicago-based nonprofit organization that accredits organizations offering continuing medical education, creating a framework that supports, inspires, and motivates healthcare educators to achieve their full potential.

The ACCME created standards for education that accelerate learning, change, and growth in healthcare. Their standards reflect the values of thier educator community and respond to the evolving healthcare environment. As a result, clinicians and teams can drive improvement in their practice and optimize the care, health, and wellness of their patients.

Every day clinicians can choose to engage with more than 3,000 hours of accredited CME. Accredited CME offers clinicians, educators, and health leaders the power and capacity to address many of the challenges in our changing healthcare environment.

Mission:
ACCME's mission is to assure and advance quality learning for healthcare professionals that drives improvements in patient care.

Vision:
ACCME's vision is a world where their community of educators supports clinicians in delivering optimal healthcare for all.

The primary responsibilities of the ACCME are to:
• Serve as the body accrediting institutions and organizations offering continuing medical education.
• Serve as the body recognizing institutions and organizations offering continuing medical education accreditation.
• Develop criteria for evaluation of both educational programs and their activities by which ACCME and state accrediting bodies will accredit institutions and organizations and be responsible for assuring compliance with these standards.
• Develop, or foster the development of, methods for measuring the effectiveness of continuing medical education and its accreditation, particularly in its relationship to supporting quality patient care and the continuum of medical education.
• Recommend and initiate studies for improving the organization and processes of continuing medical education and its accreditation.
• Review and assess developments in continuing medical education’s support of quality health.
• Review periodically its role in continuing medical education to ensure it remains responsive to public and professional needs.