Missouri Chapter of the American College of Physicians (ACP)

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

Goals:
• ​To establish and promote the highest clinical standards and ethical ideals;
• To be the foremost comprehensive education and information resource for all internists;
• To advocate responsible positions on individual health and on public policy relating to health care for the benefit of the public, their patients, the medical profession, and their members;
• To serve the professional needs of the membership, support healthy lives for physicians, ​and advance internal medicine as a career;
​• 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.
​• To recognize excellence and distinguished contributions to internal medicine, and
• To unify the many voices of internal medicine and its subspecialties for the benefit of their patients, ​their members, and their profession.

Values:
• Leadership
• Excellence
• Respect
• Compassion
• Professionalism
• Responsibility