The AAMC Organizational Characteristics Database (OCD) provides information on a number of salient dimensions about the organizational characteristics of medical schools.
The OCD now includes the teaching hospitals most recently reported primary medical school affiliate. The medical school-teaching hospital affiliations come from the COTH Annual and Quarterly Surveys of Hospital Operations and Financial Performance as reported by teaching hospital respondents.
The OCD work reflects information for MD-granting medical education programs that had preliminary, provisional, or full LCME accreditation as of June 11, 2021 and medical school and teaching hospital affiliations available as of June 11, 2021.
Please see the List of Fields and Brief Definition of Fields for more detailed information.