About the Library

The library is a comprehensive and searchable repository of information designed to educate users about medical professionalism as both an academic field and a force for change.  It is comprised of articles and books from 1990 to present. Additionally, seminal articles from the 1970s and 1980s have been included in the interest of cohesion.

The library was founded using material selected from a series of meetings held at the Open Society Institute's "Medicine as a Profession Forum" which deeply influenced the work of the Institute on Medicine as a Profession. Each meeting centered on a key topic in medical professionalism, i.e. Access to Health Care, Medical Error, Altruism and Commitment to Patient's Interests, Civic Engagement, Physician-Pharmaceutical Company Relationships, and Privacy and Confidentiality, etc. The Web Library Committee, which is comprised of key academics, physicians and health policy experts, played a definative role in the selection of Journals which are culled to sustain the library on an on-going basis. Items in the library are selected using a rigorous process of screening all the pertinent Medical, Public Health and Law Journals to pull articles related to categories relevant to medical professionalism. Each month the Journals are processed and the library is updated.

We encourage you to either search with your own categories or with categories that are selected based on broad attributes of medical professionalism.  Those categories include:

• Altruism and Commitment to Patients' Interests
  
• Physician Self-Regulation
  
• Maintainence of Technical Competence
  
• Civic Engagement

and more specific issues affected by medical professionalism such as:

• Access to Health Care
  
• Information Technology
  
• Managed Care
  
• Privacy and Confidentiality,
  
• Etc.

When available, we have provided summaries of document content, citations, and links to the actual documents.
If you have any suggestions for the library, please email library@imapny.org.

To ensure and maintain the rigor and credibility of the library and its content, the library is overseen by the following committee of medical professionalism experts:

IMAP Web Library Committee:

George Annas, JD, MPH
Professor & Chairman, Department of Health Law
Boston University School of Public Health

David Blumenthal, MD, MPP
Director, Institute for Health Policy
Massachusetts General Hospital/Partners Healthcare System, Inc.
Professor of Medicine and Professor of Health Care Policy
Harvard Medical School

Troyen Brennan, MD, JD, MPH
Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management
Harvard School of Public Health

Jordan Cohen, MD
President & CEO, Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC

Richard Cruess, MD
Professor, Medical Education
McGill Faculty of the Centre for Medicine

Sylvia Cruess, MD
Professor, Medical Education
McGill Faculty of the Centre for Medicine

Janlori Goldman, JD
President, Health Privacy Project

Robert Lawrence, M
Associate Dean for Professional Practice and Programs Professor, Preventive Medicine
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

Wendy Levinson, MD, FRCPC
Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine
University of Toronto

Sara Rosenbaum, JD
Professor of Health Law and Policy
Chair, Department of Health Policy
George Washington University Medical Center School of Public Health and Health Services

David J. Rothman, PhD
Chairman, IMAP Web Library Committee