Putting the professionalism charter into practice: ABIM Foundation announces awards to medical school departments of internal medicine (pdf)

The ABIM Foundation announced the selection of six medical school departments of internal medicine to receive $10,000 seed grants to implement the Physician Charter on Medical Professionalism in their institutions.

JAMA article summarizes relationship between physician certification and healthcare quality and presents results of new public opinion survey (pdf)

Patients trust board certification over the recommendations of family and friends, according to Gallup Poll results presented in the September 1 Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The paper, by authors affiliated with the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), summarizes how board certification is related to quality, and reveals that the public views certification as an essential marker of physician quality.