Brief Definition of Fields
1. Geographical Information
[All geographical data are updated as needed.]
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 [Data are updated as needed.]
Institutional control of the medical school classified as either Public
or Private
Relation to Parent University [Data are updated annually; last revised June, 2009.]
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; last revised June, 2009.]
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) received full accreditation in 1972 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 received full accreditation in or after 1972,
when the first community-based school received full accreditation, 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, NIH Awards [Revised May, 2009.]
NIH awards data include both direct and indirect (Facilities and Administrative Costs) associated with grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts identified as related to medical schools in the "All Organizations" aggregate dataset available on the NIH website.
Research Intensity, Federal Research Expenditures [Data are updated annually; last revised May, 2009.]
Federal research expenditures used to determine research intensity are based on federal grants and contracts expenditures for organized research as reported on the LCME Part I-A, Annual Financial Questionnaire and include expenditures recorded and not recorded on the books of medical schools.
COD Representative [Data are updated as needed.]
Name of individual who represents the medical school in the AAMC Council
of Deans
COD Title [Data are updated as needed.]
Title of individual who is the COD representative for a medical school
Deans' Responsibilities Other than the Medical School [Data are updated annually; last revised June, 2009.]
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; last revised June, 2009.]
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; last revised June, 2009.]
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; last revised June, 2009.]
Title of individual who is the AHC representative for a medical school
Other Health Schools [Data are updated as needed.]
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; last revised June, 2009.]
Status of the medical school or parent university as a member of the Association
of American Universities (AAU)
NASULGC Member [Data are updated annually; last revised June, 2009.]
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; last revised June, 2009.]
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
- Owned by University/School of Medicine
- For-Profit Corporation
- Separate Not-For-Profit Corporation
- One Professional Corporation
- Other
- Not Applicable
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
- Other
- Not Applicable
4. Integrated Hospitals
[All hospital data are updated annually; last revised June, 2009.]
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 that have common ownership with a college of medicine in a public, comprehensive university.
Category 2: Hospitals that have common ownership with a college of medicine in a public, health science university.
Category 3: Hospitals that have common ownership with a college of medicine in a private, comprehensive university.
Category 4: Hospitals that have common ownership with a college of medicine in a private, health science university.
Category 5: Non-profit hospitals that are owned separately from a college of medicine but in which the majority of medical school chairmen & hospital chiefs of service are the same individuals.
Category 6: Non-profit hospitals that are owned separately but previously had common ownership with a college of medicine.
Category 7: For-profit hospitals that are owned separately from a college of medicine but in which the majority of medical school chairmen & hospital chiefs of service are the same individuals.
Category 8: Governmental hospitals that are owned separately from a college of medicine but in which the majority of medical school chairmen 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 the American Hospital Association (AHA) definition:
- Church
- City
- City-County
- County
- For-Profit
- Government
- Hospital District
- Municipal
- Other Non-Profit
- State
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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