History

In 2018, the Division of Social Medicine & Professionalism was created through the merging of the Institute on Medicine as a Profession (IMAP) and the Center on Medicine as a Profession (CMAP). Since 2003, IMAP had been analyzing and promoting medical professionalism as a field of study and a force for change. It has conducted and supported research in topics including:

The influence of the pharmaceutical industry on physicians' prescribing patterns

The political campaign contribution behavior of physicians according to specialty

The involvement of physicians in human torture and the death penalty

The role of state governments in shaping U.S. clinical practice patterns

Analyses of the Physician Payments Sunshine Act's impact on Conflict of Interest

Mission

The Division of Social Medicine & Professionalism is dedicated to: