ABIM Medical Professionalism: A Physician Charter

This document reviews the importance of professionalism is the basis of medicine’s contract with society and that understanding the principles and responsibilities of medical professionalism is key to physicians social contract with society.

Why Does Professionalism Matter? : Trust, Transparency and Accountability

This video (3:34) shows senior physicians from around the country exploring why professionalism is integral to physicians maintaining trust with patients. It stresses that trust and accountability are key focuses to continue to keep at the center of physicians practice. At 1 minutes 30 seconds, the provider talks about how at times there will be conflict when there are competing needs but that it is important to embrace and face the conflict to better understand it.

Association Between Physician Burnout and Identification With Medicine as a Calling

This research paper seeks to evaluate the association between degree of professional burnout and physicians’ sense of calling. Study identifies that physicians who experience more burnout are less likely to identify with medicine as a calling. It implies that loss of the sense of medicine as a calling may have adverse consequences for physicians and patients