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About CME Outfitters

Evidence Tells Us What Works. Patients Tell Us What Matters.

Independent, evidence-driven CME built where clinical proof and lived experience meet.

Since 2002, CME Outfitters has delivered innovative evidence-based educational activities to thousands of clinicians each year and offers expert accreditation and outcome services for non-accredited organizations. In the years since, we have produced more than 6,000 activities and issued over a million certificates across 20+ years of accreditation with commendation.

Educating Medical Professionals
Since 2002

CME Outfitters focuses on delivering education to primary care, specialty audiences, and community-based clinicians with strong expertise in neuroscience, gastroenterology, dermatology, rheumatology, immunology, virology, transplant, and cardiology. In July of 2020, CME Outfitters became part of KnowFully Learning Group, a leading provider of continuing professional education and exam preparation courses to the healthcare and financial services sectors. Combining forces with KnowFully allows CME Outfitters to more quickly innovate and expand its breadth of educational activities.

“My team and I always count on CME Outfitters to have timely, relevant topics that matter.”

–CME Outfitters LEARNer

“This was an example of how medical education should be done. Very well done.”

–CME Outfitters lEARner

“They have so many different formats and creative ways to deliver new information.”

–CME Outfitters learner

What We Stand For

Three commitments shape every program we build.

Patients in the Planning, Not Just the Programming

“Amplifying the patient voice” is a phrase that gets used a lot in our field. We hold ourselves to a different standard: patient voice has to be operational, not decorative.

Here is what that looks like in our work:

Patients on our planning committees. Every educational activity starts with a planning committee. Patients sit on ours — not as advisors consulted at the end, but as voting members who shape needs, learning objectives, and content priorities from the start.

Patient-informed needs assessments. Before we design an activity, we survey patients living with the condition. What did your clinician get right? What did they miss? What do you wish they knew? Their answers shape what we teach.

Patients as content reviewers. Before content reaches a learner, patients review it for accuracy of lived experience, language that respects rather than reduces, and gaps a clinician might not notice.

Patients as faculty. Patients teach alongside clinicians in our activities. Because the most evidence-based answer to “what does this disease feel like” is the answer of someone living it.

“I learned a lot and while we are in adult care, you raised so many issues I had not thought about. Example: advance directives. I am not sure I am ready but to your point, it is best for my son.”

— A Caregiver

Commitment to Health Equity

Equity is not an epilogue. It is the lens we apply at the start of every planning conversation. Whose pain is undertreated. Whose symptoms get dismissed. Whose neighborhood has the specialist — and whose does not. We build education that names these patterns and equips clinicians to interrupt them.

Commitment to Best-in-Class Science

The evidence base moves. We move with it. When a landmark trial reframes a standard of care, we do not wait for our next funding cycle to update the work. We refresh content. We update activities. We retrain faculty. Our learners deserve education that reflects the science as it is today, not the science as it was when the grant was written.

Why Choose CME Outfitters?

Time Tested

For more than 20 years, CME Outfitters has been keeping medical professionals at the top of their game.

Trusted

We’ve worked hard to earn Joint Accreditation with Commendation from all of the most respected organizations across professions.

Expert Faculty

Our commitment to excellence draws top educators, researchers, and subject matter experts from around the world.

Patient-Centered

Patients sit on our planning committees, review our content, and teach as faculty — so the education clinicians receive reflects the lives clinicians serve.

Learn Your Way

Your time is valuable. With 15 learning formats, delivered live or on-demand, you can learn in the way that works for you.

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Recognized for This Work

Our values show up in independent recognition for the work.

  • Joint Accreditation with Commendation — 2025
  • Fierce Health Equity Award — 2025
  • Gold Digital Health Award — 2026
  • 6-Time NAMEC Award winner
  • Best Practice in CME Outside of the USA (Live or Enduring) — 2020

“They [CMEO] are highly regarded by expert faculty and in the CME industry for high-quality education and outcomes.”

— CMEO Independent Medical Education Supporter

Accreditation Status

CME Outfitters has been awarded Joint Accreditation with Commendation. This distinction is granted to organizations that demonstrate full compliance with all accreditation criteria and achieve excellence across seven additional commendation standards. The Joint Accreditors recognized CMEO for exemplifying a true learning culture — one that actively drives positive change within the interprofessional healthcare teams we support — and for our sustained commitment to quality improvement and meaningful engagement with the healthcare environment.

Joint Accreditation for Interprofessional Continuing Education is a collaboration of the:

  • Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) — Co-founder
  • Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) — Co-founder
  • American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) — Co-founder
  • American Academy of PAs (AAPA)
  • American Dental Association’s Continuing Education Recognition Program (ADA CERP)
  • American Psychological Association (APA)
  • Association of Regulatory Boards of Optometry’s Council on Optometric Practitioner Education (ARBO/COPE)
  • Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
  • Board of Certification for the Athletic Trainer (BOC)
  • Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR)
  • American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM)
  • American Board of Pediatrics (ABP)
  • American Board of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery (ABOHNS)
  • American Board of Pathology (ABPath)
  • American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA)
  • American Board of Surgery (ABS)
  • American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery (ABOS)
  • American Board of Thoracic Surgery (ABTS)
  • American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (ABPMR)

CME Outfitters also participates in Maintenance of Certification (MOC) with the following Boards:

  • American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA)
  • American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM)
  • American Board of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery (ABOHNS)
  • American Board of Pathology (ABPath)
  • American Board of Pediatrics (ABP)
  • American Board of Surgery (ABS) — sunsetting July 2023

CME Outfitters is registered with the California Board of Nursing, License #15510.

CME Outfitters also offers many activities that meet the requirements of the Quality Payment Program (QPP) CME Improvement Activities, aligned to reimbursement through the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS).

Add Credit to Your
Educational Activities

Do you host an educational meeting, tumor board, M&M conference, or online activity but are not offering CE credit? CME Outfitters offers Joint Provider services to non-accredited hospitals, private practices, and medical societies. Contact our expert accreditation team at accreditation@cmeoutfitters.com to learn more.

Our Impact in Action

Values are easy to write down. The harder question is whether they show up in outcomes — in what clinicians do differently, in what patients experience, in what faculty say about working with us. So we put the proof on a page.

See our impact — for testimonials from faculty and learners, the recognitions behind our work, and the outcomes data we measure ourselves against.