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Our Purpose

We strive to advance medical professionalism and physician leadership in quality assessment and improvement. See more...

Our Focus

We focus our work in four areas that permit broader and deeper exploration of issues relevant to board certification and professional credentialing:

Quality - How can physicians become more involved in quality assessment and improvement? See more.
Professionalism - What does it mean for physicians to be professionals in a world in which they face new ethical challenges? See more.
Dialogue - Can we find common ground, by bringing together those with disparate points of view? See more.
Research - How can we use science to advance quality evaluation and improvement? See more.

2008 Summer Forum

This year's forum addressed barriers to and innovations in achieving patient-centered care. Learn more about the 2008 Summer Forum.

Medical Professionalism in the New Millennium: A Physician Charter

The Physician Charter outlines three principles related to the primacy of patient welfare, patient autonomy, and social justice — the foundation to the ten commitments that are proposed to guide ethical behavior. See more...

Conflicts of Interest

According to a recent JAMA article published as part of the ABIM Foundation's work, medical professionalism is challenged by an environment in which physicians' commitments to their patients may be compromised—many times without physician awareness—by pharmaceutical industry efforts to promote their products. The ABIM Foundation has undertaken an initiative to further uncover these conflicts of interest and provide guidance to help physicians. See more...

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Putting Quality into Practice: Physicians in Their Own Voices...
is a compilation of 39 real-world success stories of systematic improvement efforts in internal medicine, family medicine, and pediatrics. It includes brief video documentaries in which physicians describe basic activities that have reinvigorated their love of medicine while improving patient care. See more...

News & Headlines

Read the recently released Issue Brief titled, The Patient Charter: A Way to Enhance the Rigor and Relevance of Physician Reporting Programs?

Research

We conduct research to advance the state-of-the-art of measurement, and the science of data driven improvement. A current bibliography of all published articles related to work funded by ABIM Foundation is available. See more…