Website URL:
Official Name:
ABIM Foundation
Targeted Career:
- Physicians
- Specialists
- Nurses
- Health care professionals
ABIM Foundation Message:
Our strategic goal is to catalyze improvements in health care by advancing medical professionalism. Our initiatives include programs that:
- Highlight and stimulate organizational and policy forces to advance professional values and behaviors
- Engage physicians in advancing the quality of care
- Support new competencies to improve quality
- Learn from international comparisons
Features and Benefits:
The ABIM Foundation provides an array of resources for the purpose of "Advancing Medical Professionalism to Improve Health Care". These resources include:
- Articles, Videos, and Powerpoint Presentations
- Organizations related to medical professionalism
- Studies, publications and conversation briefs about medical professionalism
- Assessments, surveys and other medical professionalism tools
- Medical professionalism blog highlighting best practices related to professionalism
About ABIM Foundation:
Established in 1999 by ABIM as a non-profit operating foundation, the ABIM Foundation complements ABIM’s board Certification program. The ABIM Foundation's goal is to enhance quality of care.
The ABIM Foundation focuses on four primary activities:
- Exploring what it means for physicians to be professionals in the 21st century;
- Stimulating physicians to become involved in quality assessment and improvement;
- Bringing diverse groups of leaders together to enable dialogue and consensus; and
- Promoting research of quality evaluation and improvement.
Contact Information:
ABIM Foundation
510 Walnut Street, Suite 1700
Philadelphia, PA 19106-3699
Phone: (215) 446-3530
Fax: (215) 446-3473
Email: info@abimfoundation.org
