2026 Essay Contest
This year, we invite students and trainees to reflect on a moment when medical professionalism helped you respond to or overcome a structural or systemic challenge in a way that built or strengthened trust or improved care.
Building Trust: Advancing Health Equity Grant Program
Eight grants will support internal medicine training to build trust and improve patient care
2025 John A. Benson Jr., MD Professionalism Article Prize
Six articles selected as winners of the ABIM Foundation’s 16th Annual John A. Benson Jr., MD Professionalism Article Prize
Reflecting on This Year
This year, we deepened commitment to trust at a moment when medicine needed it most. We invested in communities, equipped clinicians to navigate uncertainty, and elevated frontline voices shaping the future of the profession.
Trust in Health Care: Defend Patients, Not Just Science
A new Journal of General Internal Medicine viewpoint written by Jessica Perlo, MPH, the ABIM Foundation’s Executive Vice President, and Fred Cerise, MD, MPH, Chair of the Foundation’s Board of Trustees and CEO of Parkland Health, outlines what it will take to rebuild trust in health care today.
Grantee Spotlight: UCLA
Through the Building Trust: Advancing Health Equity Grant Program, Dr. Zubairi and her team facilitate compassionate, responsive, and accessible care for patients who critically need it.
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Our Mission

Advancing the core values of medical professionalism as a force to improve the quality of health care.

Trust Conversations

Our webinar series explores the evolving role of trust in health care.

Reimagining Professionalism: Hope in a Shifting Medical Landscape

In July 2025, experts, health care leaders, and educators came together at the ABIM Foundation Forum to explore what professionalism means in today’s rapidly changing health care landscape.