Trends in MD Academics

Trends in U.S. Medical School Faculty Over Time:

Source: AAMC Reports: U.S. Medical School Faculty https://www.aamc.org/data/facultyroster/reports/

Line graphs depicting full-time medical school faculty appointments by degree type from 1980 to 2010. Includes Anatomy, Biochemistry, Microbiology, Other Basic Science, Pathology Basic Science, Pharmacology, and Physiology.



Number of Medical School Appointments, by Degree and Tenure Status
Stacked line graphs depicting in thousands the number of full-time appointments at medical schools from 1980 to 2010. These include tenured/tenure track MDs, tenured/tenure track PhDs, tenured/tenure track MD-PhDs, non-tenure track MDs, non- tenure track PhDs, and non- tenure track MD-PhDs.



Two-panel stacked bar graphs depicting the number of total (left) and new (right) medical school faculty appointments by degree from 1980 to2010 including MDs, PhDs and MD-PhDs. Black bar depicts the NIH doubling from 1999 to 2003.