Can Professionalism Bring Joy Back to Medicine?

By Patricia Salber MD, MBA (@docweighsin)

My guest on my January 12, 2018, American Journal of Managed Care Podcast was Dr. Richard Baron, the president and CEO of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) and the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation joined my American Journal of Managed Care Podcast on We talked about the role the Foundation has been playing in fostering professionalism in medicine.

You can listen to the Podcast here: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/managed-care-cast/e/52870550

Or, you can read this transcript of the podcast which has been edited for better readability:

The mission and focus of the ABIM Foundation

Richard: The mission of the ABIM Foundation is to improve healthcare by strengthening medical professionalism. Although that sounds like kind of a hokey airy-fairy thing to talk about, the core assumption is that one of the ways that healthcare could be a lot better is if policymakers and leaders and administrators thought more about the role of medical professionalism and the intrinsic motivation of clinicians who go to work and want to do the right thing.

A lot of the conversation that goes on in healthcare is about trying to optimize performance or figure out…