NACE Wins 2025 NAMEC Award for Best Practice in Learner Outcomes

National Association for Continuing Education recognized for data-driven approach to improving clinician competencies and patient care.

Published on Mar. 4, 2026

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The National Association for Continuing Education (NACE) has been awarded the 2025 National Association of Medical Education Companies (NAMEC) Award for Best Practice in Learner Outcomes. This prestigious accolade highlights NACE's success in moving beyond traditional education to deliver programs that demonstrably improve clinician competencies and patient care through a sophisticated, data-driven approach.

Why it matters

The NAMEC award recognizes NACE's pioneering work in utilizing advanced engagement metrics and real-world data to create immersive learning experiences that have a measurable, reproducible impact across medical specialties. This award reinforces NACE's commitment to addressing disparities and advancing health equity through evidence-based continuing medical education.

The details

NACE has distinguished itself within the continuing medical education (CME) community by moving beyond passive learning. By utilizing a sophisticated, multi-variable engagement assessment tool, NACE tracks deep interaction metrics—ranging from faculty Q&A participation to surrogate measures like emoji use—to establish a clear link between platform interaction and the retention of critical diagnostic behaviors. This data-driven approach has enabled NACE to produce over 100 annual multi-topic live productions in the last two years, each drawing between 800–1,200 learners.

  • NACE has been a leader in the CME/CE space since 2000.
  • NACE holds Accreditation with Commendation from the ACCME through July 2026.

The players

NACE

The National Association for Continuing Education, a provider of industry-leading live and virtual CME/CE symposia with a mission to deliver evidence-based programming that increases clinical competency levels and enhances patient outcomes.

Gregg Sherman, MD

Chief Medical Officer at Haymarket's Medical Education Group, which oversees NACE's operations.

NAMEC

The National Association of Medical Education Companies, which awarded NACE the 2025 award for Best Practice in Learner Outcomes.

ACCME

The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education, which has accredited NACE with Commendation through July 2026.

AANP

The American Association of Nurse Practitioners, which has approved NACE as a provider of continuing education.

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What they’re saying

“We are honored by this recognition of our data-driven approach. This award reinforces NACE's commitment to pioneering immersive learning experiences that have a measurable, reproducible impact across medical specialties.”

— Gregg Sherman, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Haymarket's Medical Education Group (einpresswire.com)

The takeaway

NACE's award-winning programs demonstrate the power of data-driven innovation in medical education. By utilizing advanced engagement metrics and real-world outcomes data, NACE has pioneered immersive learning experiences that measurably improve clinician competencies and patient care, setting new standards for continuing medical education.