ACP Strategic Priorities
Valued Professional Identity
Celebrating the Value and Essential Role of Internal Medicine Specialists and Subspecialists
Focusing on the Valued Professional Identity of internal medicine physicians and, specifically, highlighting the value that internal medicine physicians bring to health care, is one of ACP’s strategic priorities. ACP launched a multimedia branding campaign designed to articulate and reinforce the vital role and value of internal medicine physicians, and the breadth, depth, and diversity of internal medicine as a profession.
The multichannel campaign showcases the leadership and impact of internal medicine physicians serving in many roles and settings and highlights: the roles of internal medicine physicians; the growing career pathways and opportunities of the profession; and their essential contributions and impact on the future of health care. The campaign was informed by research exploring perceptions of internal medicine physicians by ACP members and other internal medicine physicians, patients, and health care leaders.
Visit acponline.org/imphysician for additional details.
Advancing Primary Care
ACP is also engaged in several collaborations and initiatives to support, advance, and improve the future of primary care and internal medicine physicians. As a Co-Founder and Executive Member of the Primary Care Collaborative and Founding Partner of Primary Care for America, we continue to advocate for increased primary care investment, and the importance of innovation in primary care delivery and payment models, patient engagement, and benefit redesign.
Membership Growth & Engagement
160,000+
ACP Members
85
Chapters
159
Countries
38,000+
Medical Student Members
Support Internal Medicine
When you make a voluntary contribution to ACP, you expand the impact internal medicine physicians can have on our world. This past year, the College relaunched its philanthropic initiative with renewed focus and strategy to maximize the effect of ACP’s efforts in four key areas:
- Career and Professional Development initiatives to provide tools, skills, and opportunities that maximize the potential of internal medicine physicians at all stages of their careers.
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Workforce initiatives that help create programs that reinforce a diverse, inclusive, and thriving health care workforce.
- Advancing Equitable Obesity Care initiatives to create a stigma-free culture in which patients, clinicians, and policymakers collaborate to prevent and address obesity as a chronic disease, recognizing embedded health inequities that contribute to obesity and pose as barriers to its treatment.
- Advancing Public Policy through advocacy leadership development programs that enable internal medicine physicians to share essential perspectives and advocate for change.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) throughout every aspect of the College as a quality imperative is one of ACP’s strategic priorities. Our commitment to enhancing DEI is a multi-organizational approach impacting our governance, our membership, our staff and our profession. ACP will continue to build, collaborate, and invest in our DEI commitment through existing programs such as a grant program to stimulate and fund DEI initiatives in internal medicine training and care environments. This year ACP co-sponsored a DEI Research Grant program alongside the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), ABIM Foundation, the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine, and the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation where grant funding was awarded to 24 internal medicine education and training programs.
We continue to partner with the DEI Shift podcast to spark discussions to improve practice environments and expand insights regarding emerging concepts. Our dedication to health care equity is evident in both our policies and recently published papers such as: Improving health support in Indigenous communities; Health care during incarceration; Improving environmental health, Food insecurity, and Reforming Physician Payments to Achieve Greater Equity and Value in Health Care. In addition, equity is addressed through content published in Annals of Internal Medicine.
Over the past year, ACP continued to focus on Diversity through:
Advocacy to support all populations who are underserved and underrepresented, including gender
equity, and call for eliminating inequities in compensation, promoting career advancement, and addressing the unique challenges female physicians often face throughout their careers.
Supported LGBTQ+ and transgender rights in health care, including opposing governmental interference in the patient-physician relationship that prevents physicians from providing their patients with evidence-based medical services.
Continued our collaboration with AMA’s Health2047, to stimulate development of innovative physician advised health equity solutions through entrepreneurship as well as other partnerships and collaborations with professional associations committed to advancing DEI, such as the National Medical Association; the National Hispanic Medical Association; the Asian American Pacific Islander Equity Alliance; the GLMA (Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ equality); the American Women’s Medical Association; the Council for Medical Specialty Societies; the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and Equity Matters.
Continued our assessment of diversity opportunities for ACP staff, governance, councils and committees, and chapter leadership, including the expansion of our Summer Internship Program and mentorship initiatives at the Internal Medicine Meeting to inspire diversity with medical students and resident/fellows.
Innovation
As one of our strategic priorities, Innovation and Strategic Alignment is a guiding principle in the development of activities, initiatives and collaborative efforts focused on the ethical integration of patient care technologies and digital health. We are partnering and collaborating with others to further the development and adoption of technologies that help optimize clinical care, the patient-physician relationship, and systems/workflows.
Mobile app library offers safe and effective apps for patients
ACP has launched a mobile app library to help you find safe and effective apps to recommend to patients. Recent surveys show 35-40% of adults use phone or tablet apps to manage their health, so it is important for internal medicine physicians to be able to respond to patients’ questions and advise them about apps. The ACP App Library includes apps that support self-management or treatment of diabetes, asthma, COPD, weight management, and hypertension. All apps included in the library have been reviewed by ORCHA, a leading digital health assessor, against a comprehensive set of criteria jointly developed by ACP, ORCHA and the American Telemedicine Association.
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