The Academy for Professionalism in Health Care (APHC)

The overriding goal of the Academy’s work is to serve patients’ best interests by advancing accountable and assessable educational programs, policies, and methodologies that exhort current and future health care professionals to provide care consistent with the highest ethical and professional standards. APHC will devise and implement plans to address the needs of educators in ethics and humanities, social and behavioral sciences, and clinical medicine toward the improvement of professionalism. This will include developing strategies related to educational issues of importance to the Academy, reviewing opportunities for education of members, and educating outside organizations and the public about professionalism in healthcare and APHC’s mission. The Academy promotes scholarly inquiry regarding education in professionalism with members with diverse backgrounds. It is the expectation that APHC may from time to time issue position statements on professionalism education in healthcare that result from such scholarly inquiry.