Convening Partners to Streamline Clinical Education: The Story of ACEMAPP

Clinical education is essential to growing the healthcare workforce. But for years, the systems supporting clinical rotations were fragmented, manual, and inefficient. ACEMAPP was created to change that.

More than a decade ago, Michigan Health Council brought together education and healthcare partners across Southeast Michigan through a grant-funded initiative. Programs were expanding. Clinical space was limited. Coordinators were managing placements through spreadsheets, emails, and paper files. Requirements varied by site. Students repeated the same onboarding steps again and again.

It was clear: if we wanted to strengthen the healthcare workforce, clinical education needed better infrastructure.

The Challenge: Redundancy and Limited Visibility

Before ACEMAPP, clinical rotation management was siloed.

Students often:

• Submitted the same immunization records multiple times
• Completed nearly identical education modules at different health systems
• Navigated inconsistent onboarding requirements
• Spent the first days of clinical time on administrative activities instead of learning

Schools and healthcare organizations:

• Reviewed the same documents repeatedly
• Tracked compliance in separate systems
• Lacked real-time visibility into placement capacity

The result was unnecessary duplication, administrative burden, and delays in student placement at a time when workforce demand was rising.

The Solution: Centralized, Secure, Standardized

ACEMAPP was designed to bring structure and consistency to clinical education.

By centralizing rotation scheduling, onboarding requirements, and compliance documentation in a single secure platform, ACEMAPP reduces redundancy and establishes a shared standard across organizations.

Students submit documentation once. Requirements are captured and verified consistently. Schools and health systems operate within the same framework.

The platform supports:

• Clinical rotation scheduling
• Secure student onboarding and compliance tracking
• Standardized documentation management
• Real-time reporting and visibility

ACEMAPP helps ensure that clinical education is efficient, transparent, and aligned with organizational standards.

Strengthening the Healthcare Workforce Pipeline

Efficient clinical placement directly impacts workforce growth. When scheduling and onboarding are streamlined, students move through training more effectively, and organizations can plan with greater confidence.

ACEMAPP supports collaboration between academic institutions and healthcare employers, reducing friction and improving communication in the transition from classroom to clinical practice.

By modernizing clinical education processes, we help strengthen the healthcare workforce pipeline nationwide.

Challenges That Remain

Clinical education continues to face real constraints. The shortage of preceptors limits placement capacity in many regions and specialties. Healthcare organizations are balancing patient care demands with training responsibilities. Programs continue to grow, increasing pressure on already limited clinical resources.

Technology cannot create additional preceptors, but it can eliminate inefficiencies and support smarter coordination of available capacity.

How Far We’ve Come

What began as a regional solution is now a nationwide clinical education management platform serving schools and healthcare organizations nationwide.

ACEMAPP has expanded to include:

• Professional document verification and review services
• Enhanced compliance management support
• Talent sourcing tools that connect education and employment

Across the field, clinical coordinators now have access to secure, purpose-built scheduling platforms. Many have moved beyond outdated spreadsheets and unsecured systems toward more reliable, standardized approaches.

Built for What’s Next

ACEMAPP was created to address redundancy, improve transparency, and modernize clinical rotation management. Today, it continues to evolve alongside the needs of healthcare education.

Stronger infrastructure leads to stronger outcomes. And stronger clinical education leads to a stronger healthcare workforce.