The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM) Curriculum SCOPE Survey, first administered in 2023, is a questionnaire administered by the AAMC. It collects medical education program data regarding curriculum structure, content, organization, process, and evaluation.
Data from the Curriculum SCOPE Survey supports the AAMC and AACOM missions and advocacy work, informs medical school strategic plans and evidence-based curriculum decisions, and facilitates scholarship and dissemination.
Survey opens: August 3, 2026
Survey closes: October 16, 2026
The Curriculum SCOPE Survey has been reviewed by the American Institutes for Research Institutional Review Board.
Stay Connected
Contact curriculum@aamc.org to ensure your school contacts are up to date to receive the survey invitation and latest news.
Curriculum Virtual Community
Keep up with discussions, samples, and events related to the Curriculum SCOPE Survey, including informational session recordings regarding data and reports as well as preparing to complete the survey, templates, a glossary, and more.
Resources
Frequently Asked Questions (PDF)
Common questions and answers regarding the Curriculum SCOPE Survey are available here. If your question is not listed in the FAQs, please contact curriculum@aamc.org.
Curriculum Committee
The Curriculum Committee includes a sub-group that provides feedback and advises as to survey content and data use of the Curriculum SCOPE Survey.
Suggestion Box
Questions on the Curriculum SCOPE Survey change over time to meet ever-evolving needs of medical educators. Proposed topics and questions are considered in light of priorities and with advisement from the Curriculum Committee. If you have suggested topics or questions for a future iteration of the Curriculum SCOPE Survey, we welcome your feedback.
Reports
The reporting strategy aims to support medical schools’ evidence-based evaluation and curriculum change, as well as support AAMC and AACOM mission and advocacy efforts on behalf of medical education programs. To meet that aim, participating medical schools are provided with:
- Custom visual benchmarking
- Aggregate statistics from national norms
- Analyzable de-identified data
Participating medical schools’ reports are delivered annually in June.
Other report formats include:
- State of the Curriculum Report, which shares the latest information about medical school curriculum in visually polished high-level summaries across a number of topics for medical education leaders.
- Curriculum Data Snapshot series, available on the Curriculum Reports webpage, which uses a short report format to dive into a curriculum topic in detail, providing context and implications for the future to medical education leaders.
The reporting strategy is grounded in an iterative development and feedback process so data can be shared more swiftly, and future report editions consider user feedback.
More information about reports’ access, format, and content is available in the SCOPE FAQs. To view publicly available curriculum reports, visit www.aamc.org/curriculum-reports.