Academy for Professionalism in Health Care (APHC)

Mission:
Optimizing patient care through professionalism education, scholarship, policy, and practice in all health-related fields.

Objectives:
• The Academy's first major objective is to promote collaborative, multidisciplinary dialogue and research among professionalism educators. Members of the Academy are expected to engage in, individually or collectively, the following activities:
• Explore intellectual questions pertaining to professionalism in health care (such as the meaning of "professionalism" and how it should inform both curricula and assessment)
• Collect, catalogue, and distribute the broad spectrum of model curricula and other teaching materials in medical ethics and humanities toward professionalism with our strategic partner, MedEdPORTAL (MedEdPORTAL.org)
• Develop educational syllabi, evaluation and assessment tools, methods, and strategies and
• Assemble during annual and other APHC-sponsored meetings to promote collaboration, dialogue and research.