- Medical Professionalism
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- Building Trust
- Health Equity & Inclusion
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- ABIM Foundation Forum
- 2024 Being a Trustworthy Professional in an Untrusting World
- 2023 Reframing Trust – A Path to Address Misinformation
- 2022 Fact or Fiction – Strategies for the Misinformation Age
- 2021 Pursuing Trust – Striving for Equitable Health Care
- 2020 Building Trust & Health Equity
- 2019 [Re]Building Trust – A Path Forward
- 2018 [Re]Building Trust
The ABIM Foundation hosted its annual Forum in August 2020, in a meeting whose virtual format and agenda were heavily influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic. For the third consecutive year, the Forum focused on issues of trust. This year’s discussion centered on the severe health equity challenges that the pandemic—and its disproportionate impact on people of color—made starkly visible.
David Williams, PHD, the Florence & Laura Norman Professor of Public Health at Harvard University, delivered this year’s Kimball Lecture by video before the meeting. He began his remarks by offering data about the racial disparity in U.S. deaths from COVID-19, with Blacks dying at 2.3 times the rate of whites. Dr. Williams called for creating “communities of opportunity to minimize, neutralize and dismantle the systems of racism that create inequities in health.” His solutions included investing more heavily in early childhood, increasing taxes and governmental transfers to reduce child poverty, increasing the minimum wage, and promoting marriage.
Five people who had been involved in delivering care during the pandemic shared their reflections about trust and health equity. The session began with a video that featured highlights from remarks the panelists had recorded before the meeting. Moderator Jackie Judd, the chair of the ABIM Foundation Board of Trustees, then asked them about their experience.
Participants met in 21 small groups over the meeting’s two days in an attempt to develop bold, actionable ideas that could help deliver a more equitable health system. They explored topics related to medical education and training, research, clinical practice, public health and particular populations such as incarcerated people and Native Americans.
Background Paper
2020 ABIMF Forum
Summary Paper
2020 ABIMF Forum
Bibliography
2020 ABIMF Forum
Articles resulting from the discussions and working groups at the 2020 ABIM Foundation Forum on trust in health care:
- Why Bolstering Trust in Journalism Could Help Strengthen Trust in Medicine
Vineet M. Arora, MD, MAPP; David Rousseau, MPH; Gary Schwitzer - Physicians’ Trust in One Another
Richard M. Frankel, PhD; Virginia P. Tilden, PhD; Anthony Suchman, MD, MA - Why Physicians Should Trust in Patients
Rachel Grob, PhD; Gwen Darien, BA; David Meyers, MD - Building Trust in Health Care—Why, Where, and How
Dhruv Khullar, MD, MPP - From Distrust to Building Trust in Clinician-Organization Relationships
Mary Jane Kornacki, MS; Jack Silversin, DMD, DrPH; Dave A. Chokshi, MD, MSc - A Framework for Increasing Trust Between Patients and the Organizations That Care for Them
Thomas H. Lee, MD, MSc; Elizabeth A. McGlynn, PhD; Dana Gelb Safran, ScD