Home - ABIM Foundation

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:

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...

Shared Wisdom

Announcing Shared Wisdom - an interactive forum featuring compelling patient and caregiver stories from healthcare professionals who attended the 2008 Forum. Read their powerful stories and share your own.

New Grant Program

Read about Putting the Charter into Practice, a grant program to advance professionalism among practicing physicians.

The Physician Charter

Medical Professionalism in the New Millennium: A Physician Charter identifies three fundamental principles that underlie professionalism in the 21st century: the primacy of patient welfare, patient autonomy and social justice. See more...

Free DVD Offer

Putting Quality into Practice: Physicians in Their Own Voices...
is a video compilation of 39 real-world success stories in which physicians describe activities that have reinvigorated their love of medicine while improving patient care. See more...

Conflicts of Interest

On April 28, 2009, the Institute of Medicine released a report: Conflict of Interest in Medicine, Research, and Education, research for which was funded in part by the ABIM Foundation. View statement from Christine Cassel, MD, President and CEO of the ABIM Foundation