Organizational Characteristics Database
Brief Definition of Fields
Unless otherwise noted, data are updated continuously.
1. Geographical Information
School
Complete name of the LCME-accredited U.S. school of medicine
City
City in which the main campus of the medical school is located; this may
differ from the city in which the parent university is located
State
State in which the main campus of the medical school is located
Region
Regional location of the medical school classified as: Central, Northeast,
Southern, or Western
2. Organization and Governance
Ownership/Control
Institutional control of the medical school classified as either Public
or Private
Relation to Parent University
Relationship of the medical school to the parent university classified
as:
- Related/proximate: A medical school that is part of
a public or private university and is located in the same city as the
parent university.
- Related/distant: A medical school that is part of a
public or private university, but is not located in the same city as
the parent university (this category includes urban/suburban relationships).
- Freestanding: A medical school that is not a part of
a parent university and predominately offers M.D. and Ph.D. degrees.
- Freestanding/health science university: A medical school
that is part of a freestanding parent health sciences university, which
also has other schools such as nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, and allied
health.
- Freestanding/state system: A medical school that is
freestanding or part of a freestanding health sciences university, but
that is part of a state system of higher education.
- Federal government freestanding: A public medical school
sponsored by the federal government. The Uniformed University of the
Health Sciences is the only school that fits this category.
- Consortium: A medical school that maintains cooperative
relationships with other universities; Northeastern Ohio Universities
College of Medicine, a community-based, state medical school, is the
only school that fits this category.
Community-Based School [data are updated annually]
There are three components of the AAMC's analytic definition of a "community-based"
medical school: A community-based medical school (1) does not have an
integrated teaching hospital, (2) was accredited in 1975 or later, and
(3) is non-federal.
This definition acknowledges two fundamental principles of these schools.
First, community-based schools use community hospitals to achieve their
educational mission (relying on community hospitals for clinical facilities
rather than a traditional academic medical center hospital); therefore,
only schools that do not have an integrated hospital are included in this
category. Second, these schools emerged in or after the "community-based"
movement in medical education, when reformers espoused increased ties
between medical education and the community. By including schools that
were accredited in or after 1975, this historical context is acknowledged.
This definition is used by the AAMC for analytic purposes; medical schools
may refer to themselves as "community-based" using different definitions.
Research Intensity, 2005 NIH Rankings [data are updated annually]
Rankings of medical schools' total NIH grant awards, including research
grants, training grants, fellowships, R&D contracts, and other awards
COD Representative
Name of individual who represents the medical school in the AAMC Council
of Deans
COD Title
Title of individual who is the COD representative for a medical school
Deans' Responsibilities Other than the Medical School [data
are updated annually]
By virtue of the positions and titles they hold, in addition to the authority
and responsibility for the medical school, some deans have authority and
responsibility for the (a) Faculty Practice Plan, (b) Other Health Profession
Schools, and/or the (c) Hospital or Health System. These additional responsibilities
are noted in this field.
AHC Member [data are updated annually]
Status of the medical school as a member of the Association of Academic
Health Centers (AHC); member institutions represent the health complexes
of major universities and include both allopathic and osteopathic academic
health centers
AHC Representative [data are updated annually]
Name of institutional representative to the AHC - typically the chief
executive officer of the academic health center (but whose title may vary
according to the structure and organization of the university and academic
health center).
AHC Representative Title [data are updated annually]
Title of individual who is the AHC representative for a medical school
Other Health Schools [data are updated annually]
Listing of other health professional schools or departments at each medical
school or its affiliated university, including:
- Allied Health
- Dentistry
- Graduate Studies
- Health Administration
- Nursing
- Optometry
- Pharmacy
- Public Health
- Veterinary Medicine
AAU Member [data are updated annually]
Status of the medical school or parent university as a member of the Association
of American Universities (AAU)
NASULGC Member [data are updated annually]
Status of the medical school or parent university as a member of the National
Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC)
3. Faculty Practice Plan Structure
[All hospital data are updated annually]
Practice Plan Organizational Structure
Categories that describe the structure of the faculty practice plan. They
are:
Multi-specialty Group Practice model: all departments and clinical
facility behave as a cohesive unit with a common governing board, common
goals, and high degree of common management systems. Compensation arrangements
are uniform across departments. Joint contracting, institutional planning,
and network development activities. Practice is clinically integrated
across specialties as much as possible. All or some of the practice
plan operating expenses are shared among all departments; income may
be pooled and reallocated across departments on a formula basis.
Federated Practice Plan: departments are bound together in one
organization via a limited measure of common governance and shared management
systems. Departments may conduct joint contracting, planning, and funding
activities. Chairs still maintain strong control over compensation arrangements
and department funds. Some cross-departmental integration may be occurring,
perhaps in the form of shared expenses.
Departmental Practice Model: individual departments are essentially
autonomous with no common governance and little or no common management
system. Funding and compensation arrangements are prerogative of the
department chairs. Loosely bound for contracting and institutional planning
purposes. Little or no identification by chairs or individual physicians
of the "collectiveness" of the clinical facility. Little or
no shared expenses or income.
No practice plan
Practice Plan Legal Structure
Categories that describe the legal structure of the faculty practice plan.
They are:
- Multiple professional corporations
- Part of university/school of medicine
- Separate for-profit corporation
- Separate not-for-profit corporation
- One professional corporation
- Mixed (combination of two or more of the above)
Practice Plan Organizational Location
Categories that describe the organizational location of the faculty practice
plan. They are:
- Medical school-based
- Hospital-based
- Health system-based
- No practice plan
4. Integrated Hospitals
[All hospital data are updated annually]
Integrated academic medical center hospitals are those which are under
common ownership with a college of medicine, or have the majority of medical
school department chairs serve as the hospital chiefs of service; are
a non-Federal member of the AAMC's Council of Teaching Hospitals and Health
Systems (COTH), and provide short-stay, general hospital service.
Hospital Name
Name of the integrated hospital
Relationship with the Medical School
Relationship of the medical school and its integrated hospitals classified
as either common or separate
Detailed Relationship with the Medical School
Detailed categories that describe the relationship of the medical school
and its affiliated hospitals:
Category 1: Hospitals having common ownership with a college
of medicine in a public university
Category 2: Hospitals having common ownership with a college
of medicine in a private university
Category 3: Non-profit hospitals owned separately from a college
of medicine, but in which the majority of medical school chairs and
the hospital chiefs of service are the same individual
Category 4: Non-profit hospitals owned separately from a college
of medicine that previously had common ownership with a college of medicine
Category 5: For-profit hospitals in which the majority of medical
school chairs and the hospital chiefs of service are the same individual
Category 6: Governmental hospitals owned separately from a college
of medicine, but in which the majority of medical school chairs and
hospital chiefs of service are the same individuals
Ownership of Integrated Academic Medical Center (AHA Definition)
Ownership of the integrated academic medical center classified according
to AHA definition:
- State
- Church
- County
- City-county
- Hospital district
- Municipal
- Other non-profit
- For-profit
UHC Membership
Status of the integrated AMC hospital(s) as a member of the University
Health System Consortium (UHC).
COTH Representative
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