Finance and Business Affairs Group Resources

This page includes resources from past webinars and events, surveys, and data reports. Relevant AAMC resources are also included.

Publications and Reports

GBAnalytics
GBAnalytics are short polls where the purpose and outcome of the poll must benefit the members from the former Group on Business Affairs and not be for the sole purpose of doctoral or personal research.

Infrastructure Review: Administrative Staff Head Count Per Full-Time Faculty at U.S. Medical Schools
This data snapshot, based on fiscal year 2023 Operations Management Survey data, provides benchmarks of administrative staff supporting both MD programs and the research portfolio per full-time faculty at U.S. medical schools.

Medical School Operations
Learn about the Medical School Operations unit that serves and leads business operations and planning entities in academic medicine.

Promising Practices for Understanding and Addressing Salary Equity at U.S. Medical Schools
This resource is a starting point to creating a strategy for salary equity. It includes data on faculty compensation, promotion trends, and perceptions of the work environment, as well as promising practices from 11 medical schools that all institutions can use to begin or refine their own local salary equity efforts.

Advancing Compensation Equity as a Strategic Workforce Solution
Achieving salary equity in academic medicine is essential, not only to attract and retain the best and brightest talent, but to ensure excellence and sustainability across institutional missions. Fair pay practices can drive institutional effectiveness, mitigate risk, and strengthen workforce resilience and longevity.

Costs of Federally Sponsored Research (PDF)
The total cost of federally sponsored research includes a combination of both direct and facility and administrative costs. This poster illustrates these types of expenditures.

Preparing for a Post-COVID Era: Workplace Policies and Practices Final Report (PDF)
This document was created by the AAMC Medical School Operations unit and is intended to provide members with an understanding of shifting workplace policies and administrative issues as they prepare offices for a post-COVID workplace. This report was published in late 2022 as part of the former Group on Business Affairs (GBA) and Group on Institutional Planning (GIP) and is being retained here as a professional development resource.

Educating Colleagues About Medical School Finances (PDF)
This document was created in 2018 by the former GBA and is intended to share promising practices around how medical school finances are communicated to colleagues and students. This document is being retained here as a professional development resource.

Resource for Business Officers and New Deans (PDF)
This resource will help Principal Business Officers (PBO) who are undergoing a leadership change. It provides topics, issues, and information typically included in a new dean briefing book; includes examples of these materials and effective ways to present this information; and helps PBOs identify the critical information that should be shared with a new dean in the first 30 days, 60 days, and 90 days. This document was compiled and prepared by the 2013-14 former GBA Steering Committee and is being retained here as an archived professional development resource.

Professional Development Toolkit: What Kind of Skills Do You Need to Do Your Job
The former GBA Professional Development Committee conducted a survey to gain a better understanding of the skills needed to do their job, the skills needed to do their direct report’s job, and the skills needed to do their boss’s job. Find out more about the critical skills needed for each stage of your career. This toolkit is being retained here as a professional development resource.

Human Resources Toolkit
This toolkit was designed to by the former GBA Human Resources Interest Group to provide sourced documents for administrative professionals in academic medical centers. Here you’ll find template job descriptions, policies, and other documents, both requested and provided by your colleagues.

Examining Long-Term Trends in Reported Tuition and Fees Revenues at U.S. Medical Schools (PDF)
This AAMC data snapshot was published in March 2024 as part of the former GBA and is being retained here as a professional development resource. This snapshot provides a trend analysis to examine how tuition and fees revenues have changed over time from FY 2001 through FY 2022 and, within this context, examines how state and parent institution support revenues have also changed over time. Second, it compares how public and private medical schools have reported recorded tuition and fees expenditures compared to respective revenues.

Data

Survey Projects Schedule (2025-26) (PDF)
This is a list of selected AAMC data projects to help your institution understand when surveys and data reports are scheduled for release.

2025 FACTS: Enrollment, Graduates, and MD-PhD Data
These tables showcase enrollment, graduate, and MD-PhD data collected by the AAMC.

Faculty Roster: U.S. Medical School Faculty Data
The annual U.S. Medical School Faculty report contains a set of tables and trend analyses that answer common questions about the national distribution of full-time faculty, department chairs, and medical school deans.

AAMC Faculty Salary Report
The annual AAMC Faculty Salary Report displays total compensation statistics for full-time medical school faculty broken out by degree, rank, department/specialty, medical school type, region, gender, and race/ethnicity. 

AAMC Report on the Compensation of the Dean’s Office Staff
This annual report provides compensation and responsibilities statistics for medical school chief officers in eight administrative areas at the senior associate/vice dean, associate dean, and assistant dean levels.

U.S. Medical School Revenues (Tables and Graphs)
These summary tables and graphs outline data from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME®) Part I-A Annual Medical School Financial Questionnaire administered by the AAMC.

Organizational Characteristics Database (OCD)
This Excel-based report provides information on a number of salient dimensions about the organizational characteristics of medical schools.

Medical School Profile System (MSPS)
The MSPS, formerly known as the Institutional Profile System (IPS), was developed in 1972 to allow medical school administrators to perform intra- and inter-institutional comparisons, develop time-series data, and support accreditation activities. It enables users to view and create benchmarking reports, access surveys, and download data at their convenience.

Operations Management Survey and Tool
The Operations Management Survey and Tool is accessible in the Metrics tab in the Medical School Profile System for participating schools

Department and Division Administrator Compensation Data
Participating schools can find Department and Division Administrator Compensation Data in the Compensation tab in the Medical School Profile System.

Mentorship Circle Program
The Mentorship Circle Program serves to connect members interested in receiving or providing professional and/or leadership development via Mentorship Circles, where mentors will help to support mentees in both their careers and their group experience.

The Basic Principles of Medical School Funding
This introductory, on-demand virtual learning course provides an overview of medical school funding and is perfect for medical professionals who don’t have a background in finance.

Unique and Alternative Funding Models for Academic Health Centers
In academic health centers, the design and implementation of funds flow models and compensation structures are critical to ensuring sustainability, aligning incentives, and supporting mission fulfillment. This webinar explores diverse approaches to funds flow and compensation, examining their impacts on financial health, operational alignment, and institutional growth. This topic was previously presented at the former GBA and Group on Institutional Planning (GIP) 2025 Joint Spring Meeting and open to any constituents at AAMC-member institutions.

Leveraging AI to Enhance Effectiveness in Administration, Analytics, and Leadership (video)
This webinar explores practical AI applications that streamline administrative and operational workflows. Highlights include DOMINIQ — the Department of Medicine’s secure chatbot for accessing policies across finance, HR, and IT — and examples of using AI to enhance research administration, clinical revenue, and faculty productivity through tools like Python, Excel, and Power Automate. The webinar also introduces a novel approach where leaders use GPT models for reflective dialogue to strengthen communication skills. This webinar was previously presented at the former GBA and GIP 2025 Joint Spring Meeting and is being retained here as a professional development resource.

Utilizing AAMC Data and Resources — The Medical School Profile System (MSPS)
In this 2024 webinar, hosted by the former GBA Data and Benchmarking Committee, AAMC staff provide a walkthrough of the MSPS, which allows users to access a wide range of custom reports based on, for example, the annual LCME surveys, the AAMC student surveys, and compensation surveys. This webinar is being retained here as a professional development resource.

2025 Group on Business Affairs and Group on Institutional Planning Joint Spring Meeting
Overview of the 2025 program from the former GBA and GIP Joint Spring Meeting. This is being retained here as a professional development resource.

2025 Principal Business Officers’ Meeting
Overview of the 2025 program and theme from the former GBA Principal Business Officers’ Meeting. This is being retained here as a professional development resource.