Accreditation Rules
Our accreditation rules ensure that accredited CNAE is designed to be relevant, practice-based, effective, and independent of commercial influence. Our rules reflect the values of our educator community, build on adult education research, and respond to the evolving healthcare environment.

With this framework, we empower CNAE providers to deliver high-quality education that drives improvements in practice and helps clinicians and teams to optimize the care, health, and wellness of patients.
 Accreditation Criteria

  • The provider has a CNAE mission statement that includes expected results articulated in terms of changes in competence, performance, or patient outcomes that will be the result of the program.
  • ​The provider incorporates into CNAE activities the educational needs (knowledge, competence, or performance) that underlie the professional practice gaps of their own learners.
  • ​The provider generates activities/educational interventions that are designed to change competence, performance, or patient outcomes as described in its mission statement.
  • ​The provider chooses educational formats for activities/interventions that are appropriate for the setting, objectives, and desired results of the activity.
  • ​The provider develops activities/educational interventions in the context of desirable physician attributes [e.g., Accreditation Council for Nurse Aesthetic Education (ACNAE) Competencies].
  • ​The provider appropriately manages commercial support (if applicable using the ACNAE Standards for Commercial Support).
  • ​The provider actively promotes improvements in health care and NOT proprietary interests of a commercial interest.
ACNAE Core Values
Excellence in Education
  Excellence of  medical director education means setting standards and metrics for providers and educators. 
Decision Making
Improving medical director decision making and setting standards for protocol usage.
Adoption of Technology
Technology has disrupted many industries and change the way we work.  Setting standards for adoption of technology in medical director education
Mission Statement

ACNAE's mission is to assure and advance
quality learning for medical directorship education
that drives excellence in patient care.

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