Mission
​

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

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)

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.