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About the AAMC
The AAMC serves and leads
the academic medicine community to
improve the health of all.
The AAMC represents all 131 accredited U.S. and 17
accredited Canadian medical schools; approximately 400 major teaching hospitals and health systems, including 68
Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers; and nearly
90 academic and scientific societies. Through these
institutions and organizations, the AAMC represents
125,000 faculty members, 75,000 medical students, and
106,000 resident physicians.
Through its many programs and services, the AAMC
strengthens the world's most advanced medical care by
supporting the entire spectrum of education, research, and
patient care activities conducted by our member institutions.
The AAMC and our members are dedicated to the
communities we serve and steadfast in our desire to earn
and keep the public's trust for the role we play in improving
the nation's health.
Vision
The vision of the AAMC and its members is a healthy
nation and world in which:
- America's system of medical education, through
continual renewal and innovation, prepares physicians
and scientists to meet the nation's evolving health
needs.
- The nation's medical students, biomedical graduate
students, residents, fellows, faculty, and the health
care workforce are diverse and culturally competent.
- Advances in medical knowledge, therapies, and
technologies prevent disease, alleviate suffering, and
improve quality of life.
- The nation's health system meets the needs of all.
- Concern for compassion, quality, safety, efficacy,
accountability, affordability, professionalism, and the
public good guide the health care community.
- Medical schools and teaching hospitals continually
earn the trust and support of the public for their
special missions.
- The AAMC and our members are a dynamic force in
realizing this vision.
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