Division of Social Medicine and Professionalism
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History
In 2018, the Division of Social Medicine & Professionalism was created through the merging of the Institute on Medicine as a Profession (IMAP) and the Center on Medicine as a Profession (CMAP). Since 2003, IMAP had been analyzing and promoting medical professionalism as a field of study and a force for change. It has conducted and supported research in topics including:
- The influence of the pharmaceutical industry on physicians' prescribing patterns
- The political campaign contribution behavior of physicians according to specialty
- The involvement of physicians in human torture and the death penalty
- The role of state governments in shaping U.S. clinical practice patterns
- Analyses of the Physician Payments Sunshine Act's impact on Conflict of Interest
Mission
The Division of Social Medicine & Professionalism is dedicated to:
- Promoting advocacy on behalf of not only individual patient health, but also population health among medical professionals
- Analyzing the implications of the extraordinary changes in the delivery of health care on medical professionalism
- Investigating the impact of "disruptive technologies" on medical practice and professionalism
- Analyzing the impact of the entrance of investors on the practice of medicine