Mission
  & Objectives

The ABIM Foundation seeks to advance medical professionalism and physician leadership in quality assessment and improvement. This mission is achieved through the Foundation’s work in several key areas:

• Convening health care leaders and bringing the physician voice to the national dialogue on the quality of care.
• Improving physicians’ understanding and acceptance of the broad set of moral and ethical imperatives of professionalism that are defined in the Physician Charter.
• Assessing relationships between Certification, Maintenance of Certification and quality of care.
• Supporting research that encourages physician engagement in self-assessment and quality improvement.

Established in 1999 by the American Board of internal Medicine (ABIM), which certifies internal medicine physicians and subspecialists, the ABIM Foundation complements ABIM’s work by exploring the issues central to the common purpose of both organizations – to enhance the quality of patient care.