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The Alliance for Clinical Education (ACE) is a multidisciplinary group formed in 1992 to enhance clinical instruction of medical students. ACE’s mission is to foster collaboration across specialties to promote excellence in clinical education of medical students. Its members include representatives of the groups, which direct the core clinical clerkships in most medical schools. Its members include representatives of the following national organizations of clerkship directors:

• Association of Directors of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry (ADMSEP)

• Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics (APGO)

• Association for Surgical Education (ASE)

• Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine (CDIM)

• Consortium of Neurology Clerkship Directors/American Academy of Neurology (CNCD)

• Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics (COMSEP)

• Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM).

ACE Bylaws were approved by each organization in 2007.  They may be accessed using this link:  ACE Bylaws

To contact designated delegates from the organizations, please click on "Constituent Organizations" for these individuals. You may also contact one of the following with inquiries:

President:  Louis Pangaro, M.D.
Past-President:  Fredrick A. McCurdy, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A.
Executive Director:  Gary L. Beck, M.A.