Access to Care by the Numbers

20%
Higher chance of survival for sickest patients after surgery at major teaching hospitals
1
100%
of comprehensive cancer centers are AAMC members
2
64%
of pediatric ICU beds are at teaching hospitals
3

Tomorrow's Doctors. Tomorrow's Cures.

Academic medicine touches the lives of Americans every day.

The AAMC represents 160 U.S. medical schools, nearly 500 academic health systems and teaching hospitals, and more than 70 academic societies working to improve the health of people everywhere through medical education, biomedical research, patient care, and community collaboration. It supports more than 210,000 full-time faculty members, 99,000 medical students, 162,000 resident physicians, and 60,000 graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in the biomedical sciences.

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References

1Burke LG, Frakt AB, Khullar D, Orav EJ, Jha AK. Association between teaching status and mortality in US hospitals. JAMA. 2017;317(20):2105-2113. doi:10.1001/jama.2017.5702

2AAMC. Health Care. Accessed June 5, 2025. https://www.aamc.org/about-us/mission-areas/health-care

3AAMC . Health Care. Accessed June 5, 2025. https://www.aamc.org/about-us/mission-areas/health-care