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Countering Medical Misinformation: A Framework to Support Successful Interventions
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Building Trustworthiness by Addressing Uncertainty in Medicine Grant Program
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Choosing Wisely STARS program expands to focus on trust
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NYU’s Lauren Taylor Joins ABIM Foundation, AcademyHealth Effort to Mitigate Mistrust in Health Care
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Videos from 2022 ABIM Foundation Forum

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2022 ABIM Foundation Forum Patient Video

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2022 President’s Lecture: Contagious Rumors in the Time of COVID, Renée DiResta

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2022 President’s Lecture Q&A with Reneé DiResta & Richard J. Baron

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Epidemiologic Model: Best Practice Surveillance, Diagnosis and Rapid Response

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Reflections on Day 1 – Jackie Judd and Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo

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Reflections on Day 2 – Kimberly Manning and Bob Wachter

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Final Thoughts – Reneé DiResta & Richard J. Baron

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Latest News

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

April 12, 2023

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.

March 28, 2023

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

December 15, 2022

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

“Who let you into this country?”: Medical Students write about Racism, Mistrust During Training

September 19, 2022

Four future physicians share their personal stories as winners of the Building Trust Essay Contest.

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Latest Blog Posts

Countering Medical Misinformation: A Framework to Support Successful Interventions

May 8, 2023

Building Trust & Equity in Internal Medicine: University of Maryland Medical School

March 9, 2023

Building Trust & Equity in Internal Medicine: Oregon Health & Sciences University

February 8, 2023

Building Trust & Equity in Internal Medicine: University of North Carolina School of Medicine

January 11, 2023

Celebrating 10 years of Choosing Wisely

April 4, 2022

Ten years ago the ABIM Foundation announced a new effort with a lofty goal to improve health care: encourage clinicians to have meaningful conversations with their patients to help avoid unnecessary tests and procedures, many of which offer little benefit and, in some cases, do more harm than good.

Building trust at your organization takes time and resources – we can help

December 13, 2021

Earlier this year the ABIM Foundation launched its Building Trust Initiative with the goal of elevating the importance of trust as an essential organizing principle to guide operations and improvements in health care. And since that launch, we’ve been creating resources to help organizations across various health care sectors start on their own journey of building trust with their staff, community and stakeholders.

ABIM Foundation supports the We Got Us Empowerment Project

December 7, 2021

We Got Us sponsors virtual “empowerment sessions” that are national in scope and are often done in coordination with other organizations, such as Black sororities or churches.

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