Mission
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To enhance the quality and effectiveness of health care by fostering
​excellence and professionalism in the practice of medicine.

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Goals

1
​To establish and promote the highest clinical standards and ethical ideals;

2
To be the foremost comprehensive education and information resource for all internists;

3
To advocate responsible positions on individual health and on public policy relating to health care for the benefit of the public, our patients, the medical profession, and our members;

4
To serve the professional needs of the membership, support healthy lives for physicians,
​and advance internal medicine as a career;

5
​To promote and conduct research to enhance the quality of practice, the education and continuing education of internists, and the attractiveness of internal medicine to physicians and the public.

6
​To recognize excellence and distinguished contributions to internal medicine, and

7
To unify the many voices of internal medicine and its subspecialties for the benefit of our patients,
​our members, and our profession.

Originally approved by the ACP Board of Regents July 1991 (Revisions approved by the Board of Regents October 1996, April 2003, July 2003, January 2004)

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Core Values

Leadership

We provide guidance and inspiration through education, information, policy development, and advocacy for patients.

Excellence

We set and maintain the highest ethical
and professional standards for
​ourselves and our programs.

Respect

We embrace the dignity
and uniqueness
of every human being.

Compassion

We are sensitive and empathetic
​to the needs of others.

Professionalism

We work with expertise, commitment, and diligence, serving others before ourselves.

Responsibility

We maintain healthy personal and
​professional lives to most effectively
​serve our patients.