America’s Medical Schools and Teaching Hospitals We Are the Future of Health Care

We educate and train tomorrow’s doctors.

Scientists at medical schools and teaching hospitals conduct about half of all external research funded by the National Institutes of Health.

We provide care not available elsewhere.

These teaching hospitals provide critical services often not available elsewhere. Teaching hospitals operate:

America’s medical schools and teaching hospitals drive the innovations that improve health. Advances and new treatments developed at these institutions include:

100 percent of all M.D.s educated in the U.S. graduate from one of the nation’s 141 accredited medical schools.

The nation’s nearly 400 major teaching hospitals train 80,000 resident physicians annually in primary care and other specialties.

1 in 8 physicians in the nation teach, conduct research, or cares for patients as a full-time faculty member at a U.S. medical school.

Although only 6 percent of all U.S. hospitals, AAMC-member teaching hospitals provide nearly one quarter of clinical care and nearly 40 percent of hospital charity care.

Coronary angioplasty and drug-coated stents

Bone marrow and organ transplants

Insulin infusion pump for diabetics

Chemotherapy for cancer

New treatments for cystic fibrosis

Minimally invasive surgery

Better ways to manage chronic diseases

100 percent of the nation’s 41 Comprehensive Cancer Centers

82 percent of accredited level-one trauma centers

We pioneer cures and bring them to patients.

78 percent of burn unit beds

63 percent of pediatric intensive care unit beds

There are medical

schools in 44 states.

Only in academic medical centers do physicians and scientists who teach medicine and conduct groundbreaking research work together to bring the latest treatments, technologies, and life-saving care to patients.