1. America’s Medical Schools and Teaching Hospitals
We Are the Future of Health Care
We educate and train We pioneer cures and We provide care not
tomorrow’s doctors. bring them to patients. available elsewhere.
100 percent of all M.D.s educated Scientists at medical schools and
in the U.S. graduate from one of the teaching hospitals conduct about half
nation’s 141 accredited medical schools. of all external research funded by the
National Institutes of Health.
The nation’s nearly 400 major America’s medical schools and teaching hospitals
teaching hospitals train 80,000 drive the innovations that improve health.
resident physicians annually in primary Advances and new treatments developed at Although only 6 percent of all U.S. hospitals, AAMC-member
care and other specialties. these institutions include: teaching hospitals provide nearly one quarter of clinical care
and nearly 40 percent of hospital charity care.
1 in 8 physicians in the nation teach,
Coronary angioplasty and drug-coated stents These teaching hospitals provide critical services often
conduct research, or cares for patients as
a full-time faculty member at a U.S. Bone marrow and organ transplants not available elsewhere. Teaching hospitals operate:
medical school.
Insulin infusion pump for diabetics 100 percent of 78 percent of
the nation’s 41 burn unit beds
There are Chemotherapy for cancer Comprehensive
medical Cancer Centers
schools in New treatments for cystic fibrosis
44 states. Minimally invasive surgery 82 percent 63 percent
of accredited of pediatric
Better ways to manage chronic diseases level-one intensive
trauma centers care unit beds
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.