Relevant Articles and Selected Readings
President’s Lecture: “On Calling”
- Rosenbaum, L. On Calling — From Privileged Professionals to Cogs of Capitalism? The New England Journal of Medicine. January 2024.
- Rosenbaum, L. Peers, Professionalism, and Improvement — Reframing the Quality Question. The New England Journal of Medicine. April 2022.
- Rosenbaum, L. Being Well while Doing Well — Distinguishing Necessary from Unnecessary Discomfort in Training. The New England Journal of Medicine. January 2024.
- Katz, J. Is Medicine a Job or a Calling?. Medpage Today. February 2025.
Exploration of Professional Values & Behaviors
- Swick, H. M. Toward a Normative Definition of Medical Professionalism. Academic Medicine: Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges. June 2000.
Navigating Financial and Corporate Influences on Medical Professionalism
- Brennan, T., et al. Health Industry Practices that Create Conflicts of Interest: A Policy Proposal for Academic Medical Centers. JAMA. January 2006.
- Fuse Brown, E., et al. The Rise of Private Equity in Health Care — Not a Uniquely American Phenomenon. The New England Journal of Medicine. February 2025.
- Fuse Brown, E. Defining Health Care Corporatization. The New England Journal of Medicine. June 28, 2025.
- Hall, M. A. and Garber, J. Exclusion of Elective Care from Hospital Financial Assistance Policies —Arresting a Troubling Development. The New England Journal of Medicine. July 5, 2025.
- Khullar, D. The Gilded Age of Medicine is Here. The New Yorker. December 12, 2024.
- Malina, D, et al. The Corporatization of U.S. Health Care—A New Perspective Series. The New England Journal of Medicine. July 2, 2025.
Medical Professionalism Education Under the Microscope
- Landry, A., et al. Dismantling the Overpolicing of Black Residents. The New England Journal of Medicine. September 2023.
- Blakemore, E. ‘This is not a Miss America contest’: Sexism in Science, Research is Challenged. Washington Post. October 24, 2020.
- Gross, R. The Unbearable Vagueness of Medical ‘Professionalism.’ New York Times. March 19, 2024.2024.
- Osman, N., et al. Moving Beyond the Dichotomous Assessment of Professionalism in the Internal Medicine Clerkship: Results of a National Survey of Clerkship Directors. Academic Medicine. February 2024..
Day 1 Closing
- Goldman, D. Letter from FASPE’s Chairman – “What does it mean to be a professional?”. FASPE Newsletter. 2019
Bright Spots in Professionalism: Reclaiming Values Through Advocacy, Accountability, and Community
- Schulman, K., et al. Unionization Efforts by Physicians Between 2000 and 2024. JAMA. December 2024.
- Schulman K., et al. Restoring Physician Authority in an Era of Hospital Dominance. JAMA. December 2022.
- Cervantes, L., et al. Centering Marginalized Voices in Advocacy for Equitable Policy Change in Kidney Disease. Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension. November 2024.
- Spellberg, B. The Policy to Override Policies—One Policy to Rule Them All. JAMA Internal Medicine. October 2024.
- Nolen, L. We Got Us: A Community-centered Approach to Increasing Vaccine Access for Minoritized Groups. Journal of Hospital Medicine. August 2022.
- Nolen, L., et al. Mobile Clinics Can Help Reduce Health Inequity. Scientific American. June 2021.
2025 Building Trust Essay Contest Winners
- Barghout, R. The Weight of Words. ABIM Foundation. May 2025.
- Hassan, A. What We Hold and What We Share. ABIM Foundation. May 2025.
- Ezenwa, B. The Clay Heart. ABIM Foundation. May 2025.
- Popokh, B. Bridging Generations in Medicine: Trust and Professionalism in a Rural Town. ABIM Foundation. May 2025.
Other Recommended Readings
- Agris, J., et al. How Leaders at High-Performing Healthcare Organizations Think About Organizational Professionalism. Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. Winter 2024.
- American Board of Medical Specialties. ABMS Position Statement on Promoting Professionalism. March 2024.
- Project of the ABIM Foundation, ACP-ASIM Foundation, European Federation of Internal Medicine. Medical Professionalism in the New Millennium: A Physician Charter. Annals of Internal Medicine. February 2002.
- Bloche, M. Ethics And Health Systems Change: Introduction. Health Affairs. October 2024.
- Brown, M.E.L, et al. Exploring the Hidden Curriculum’s Impact on Medical Students: Professionalism, Identity Formation and the Need for Transparency. Medical Science Educator, July 2020.
- Chen, T. Young Doctors Want Work-Life Balance. Older Doctors Say That’s Not the Job. Wall Street Journal. November 2024.
- Cerdena, J., et al. Resculpting Professionalism for Equity and Accountability. Annals of Family Medicine. November-December 2022.
- Egener, B., et al. The Charter on Professionalism for Health Care Organizations. Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges. August 2017.
- Gonzalo, J., et al. System Citizenship: Re-Envisioning the Physician Role as Part of the Sixth Wave of Professionalism. American Journal of Medicine. June 2023.
- Hood, V. Medical Professionalism Faces New Challenges, Opportunities. I.M. Matters from ACP. January 2012.
- Madzia, J. “To be professional, it isn’t necessarily our full selves”: How Medical Students with Minoritized Identities Manage Tensions between Medical Professionalism and their Own Professional Identities. SSM – Qualitative Research in Health. December 2023.
- Maristany, D. The Problem and Power of Professionalism: A Critical Analysis of Medical Students’ and Residents’ Perspectives and Experiences of Professionalism. Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges. November 2023.
- Ofri, D. The Business of Health Care Depends on Exploiting Doctors and Nurses. New York Times. June 2019.
- Rothman, D., et al. Medical Professionalism in an Organizational Age: Challenges and Opportunities. Health Affairs. January 2020.
- Thompson, D. Workism is Making Americans Miserable. The Atlantic. February 2019.
- Verghese, A. The Importance of Being. Health Affairs. October 2016.
- Woolf, S. How Should Health Care and Public Health Respond to the New US Administration? JAMA. January 2025.