The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) has released its 2025 Data Report, Sustaining Trust and Expanding Reach. The findings give CME providers a useful look at where the accredited continuing education landscape stands today, and where it is heading.
Why This Matters for CME Providers
The 2025 data reinforce something most CME professionals already know: accredited CME is not a compliance checkbox. It is a growing, high-investment enterprise that healthcare professionals actively choose to participate in. For providers, this report offers important context about learner expectations, delivery format, and what it takes to stay competitive.
Key Highlights
Engagement and investment are at all-time highs
Accredited providers in the ACCME System delivered 242,511 educational activities in 2025 and generated 57.5 million learner interactions. Total reported income reached approximately $3.85 billion, a new high. Registration fees accounted for 54% of that total, reflecting genuine demand from learners and institutions rather than compliance-driven minimums.
On-demand learning is doing the heavy lifting
Enduring materials accounted for 44% of all activities but drove 65% of all learner interactions. For CME providers, that gap is worth paying attention to:
- Flexible, self-paced content reaches more learners than any other format.
- Scalable delivery and reliable credit tracking are increasingly standard expectations.
- Providers who can efficiently produce and manage enduring materials are better positioned to grow their programs.
Interprofessional education is expanding
Jointly accredited providers grew from 187 to 206 in 2025, a 10.2% increase. Though they represent just 14% of accredited providers, they accounted for 52% of all activities and 61% of total learner interactions. As team-based care becomes the norm, continuing education designed to support entire care teams is following.
Outcomes measurement remains an opportunity
Most activities are measuring learner competence (95%) and knowledge (74%), but fewer are going deeper:
- Only 39% measured learner performance.
- Just 12% measured patient health outcomes.
- 7% measured community or population health.
For providers, stronger outcomes reporting is both an accreditation consideration and a way to demonstrate the real-world value of their programs.
Next Steps for CME Providers
- Audit your content mix to ensure your enduring materials library can support growing on-demand learner expectations.
- Evaluate your outcomes reporting to identify where you can capture performance and patient-level data.
- Review your delivery infrastructure to confirm it can scale alongside learner engagement growth.
- Stay current on accreditation trends by reading reports like this one and aligning your program accordingly.
Cadmium is built to help CME providers meet these demands. From managing enduring materials at scale to tracking outcomes and supporting accreditation compliance, Cadmium gives healthcare education teams the tools to grow their programs without adding administrative burden.
Not sure where your program stands against these benchmarks? Speak to an expert to see how Cadmium can support your goals.
