Medical Education by the Numbers

99,000
Students enrolled in MD programs
1
162,000
Resident physicians trained last year
2
71%
of recent graduates borrowed to finance their medical education
3

How academic medicine trains the health care workforce

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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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How Academic Medicine Transforms Lives

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References

1AAMC. 2024 FACTS: Enrollment, Graduates, and MD-PhD Data. AAMC; 2024. Accessed June 5, 2025. https://www.aamc.org/data-reports/students-residents/data/facts-enrollment-graduates-and-md-phd

2Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. ACGME Data Resource Book. Academic Year 2023-2024. ACGME; 2024. Accessed June 5, 2025. http://www.acgme.org/About-Us/Publications-and-Resources/Graduate-Medical-Education-Data-Resource-Book

3AAMC. Medical Student Education: Debt, Costs, and Loan Repayment Fact Card for the Class of 2024. Access June 6, 2025. https://store.aamc.org/downloadable/download/sample/sample_id/633/