Established by the American Medical Association (AMA) in 1906, the AMA Physician Professional Data™ includes education, training and practice information on Doctors of Medicine (MD) and Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) in the United States and territories.
What is AMA Physician Professional Data?
AMA Physician Professional Data includes current and historical data for more than 1.5 million physicians, residents and medical students in the U.S. This figure includes approximately 379,000 graduates of foreign medical schools who reside in the U.S. and who have met the educational and credentialing requirements necessary to train and or practice in the U.S.
A record is established when individuals enter an accredited U.S. allopathic medical school or osteopathic medical school, or in the case of international medical graduates (IMGs), upon entry into a post-graduate residency training program accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) or licensure in the U.S. As a physician's training and career develop, additional professional certification information is added to their Physician Professional Data record.
Use of physician data
AMA Physician Professional Data is used across the health care industry for various purposes, including verifying physicians’ credentials in accordance with credentialing accreditation standards and understanding the physician workforce.
Updating and opting out
Updates to the AMA Physician Professional Data should be submitted electronically through the AMA Credentialing Solutions site. Please note that AMA requires verification from the primary source before applying changes to medical education, residency training or other professional certification data.
The AMA provides physicians and medical students the ability to control access to their data. To learn more, review the AMA Physician Data Distribution and Privacy Policy (PDF).
