About Academic Medicine

Medical schools, academic health systems and teaching hospitals transform the lives of Americans every day. Whether it’s by developing cutting-edge treatments, providing world-class care, training tomorrow’s health workforce, or creating jobs that strengthen communities, academic medicine touches us all.

AAMC-member teaching hospitals provide

33%

of hospital charity care

1

23%

of Medicare inpatient days

1

27%

of Medicaid hospitalizations

1

100%

of comprehensive cancer centers

1

59%

of level-one trauma centers

1

64%

of pediatric ICU beds

1

What Starts in Academic Medicine Saves Lives

Where Does Academic Medicine start?

What happens every day, in 160 medical schools and nearly 500 academic health systems and teaching hospitals across the U.S., comes down to one core principle: the delivery of high-quality patient care, rooted in the latest research, practices and technology — by people, for people. What they do doesn’t stop at their doors. Many of the greatest discoveries and advances in patient care and the most important treatments of the past century all began in academic medicine.