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Association of American Medical Colleges and accredited medical school registrars

AAMC / Medical School Registrar verification

Medical school enrollment, degree conferral, graduation date, and residency / fellowship completion — confirmed against the issuing institution's registrar.

On credential add + every 365d Primary source — no aggregator Authority site

Issuing authority: AAMC, LCME-accredited U.S. medical schools, and ACGME-accredited residency programs

What we verify

Medical school name and LCME/COCA accreditation status

Degree type (MD, DO) and date of conferral

Residency and fellowship program completion (ACGME)

Cross-check with FSMB/ECFMG for IMG-claimed graduation records

Verification rules

How we decide pass / flag / block

01
Registrar response is the authoritative source for U.S. graduates; FSMB/ECFMG is used for international graduates.
02
If the registrar's degree date disagrees with attested data by >30 days, a discrepancy is opened.
03
Closed or unaccredited institutions automatically flag the credential for human review.

Example evidence

Example registrar response

Stored alongside the credential with source URL, raw payload hash, and timestamp. Names and IDs below are illustrative.

Verified payload (excerpt)

medical_school

Baylor College of Medicine

degree

graduation_date

2014-05-22

accreditation

LCME — Active

verification_method

Primary source — registrar

Refresh cadence

On credential add + every 365d

Verified once on credential creation, then re-confirmed annually or whenever a downstream source (FSMB, ECFMG, state board) reports a conflicting record.

Source-down handling

When the authority is unreachable

If the registrar is unreachable, the prior verification stands and FSMB/ECFMG is used as a secondary corroborating source.

Previous source

FSMB / ECFMG

Federation of State Medical Boards & Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates