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    Leading Health Organizations Commit Another $400,000 to Health Equity

    Grants to support DEI in education and training now total $1.6 million since 2021

    Navigating Uncertainty in Medicine through Storytelling and Hands-On Learning

    $360,000 awarded to improve clinical communication with patients When clinicians poorly communicate their uncertainty about a particular medical test, treatment, or diagnosis, it can lead to misunderstandings that can jeopardize the safety of their patients. Despite this, there is a lack of established curricula and reliable assessment methods to teach clinicians how to accept uncertainty... Read more »

    ABIM Foundation Names New Executive Vice President

    Jessica Perlo, MPH, formerly of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, to assume the role September 1 The ABIM Foundation, a national nonprofit focused on advancing medical professionalism to improve the quality of health care, announced Jessica Perlo, MPH, as its next Executive Vice President, effective September 1, 2023. “The health care landscape is changing rapidly,... Read more »

    ABIM Foundation Announces New Trustees

    The ABIM Foundation today announced the appointment of two new members to its Board of Trustees: Margaret Flinter, APRN, PhD, FAAN, FAANP, and Rajeev Jain, MD, FACP, FASGE, AGAF.

    Medical Schools Receive Nearly Half a Million Dollars to Build Trust in Diverse Communities

    Programs will advance health equity and address diagnostic gaps

    New Health Care Infodemiology Brief Now Available from The ABIM Foundation and The Public Good Projects

    To help clinicians better understand trending health narratives and debunk false claims to which their patients may have been exposed, the Public Good Projects (PGP), with support from the ABIM Foundation, has launched a new resource.

    “I don’t need meds;” “A natural cure for diabetes;” “They will sell my teeth to the government”

    Future physicians share first-hand accounts of medical misinformation’s reach and durability as winners of the 2023 Building Trust Essay Contest

    Articles about Health Care Inequities, Bias, and Trust are Honored

    Portraits of myriad health care inequities are displayed in articles honored today by the ABIM Foundation as it announces the winners of its 13th annual John A. Benson Jr., MD Professionalism Article Prize.

    Less than Half of Patients Say they have Confidence in the US Health Care System. Eight US Health Systems will Test Ways to Reverse that Trend.

    The Institute for Healthcare Improvement, ABIM Foundation, and eight health care organizations will test approaches to restore trust of communities and clinicians

    NYU’s Lauren Taylor Joins ABIM Foundation, AcademyHealth Effort to Mitigate Mistrust in Health Care

    Dr. Taylor named a Scholar-in-Residence for the newly-created Research Community on Trust