About the Media Library
The media 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 media 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 definitive 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.