The Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Excellence, established in 2011, is a foundation with an emphasis on improving the
doctor–patient relationship
The doctor–patient relationship is a central part of health care and the practice of medicine. A doctor–patient relationship is formed when a doctor attends to a patient's medical needs and is usually through consent. This relationship is bu ...
through patient care, teaching and research at the
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...
Medicine.
It was made by a gift of $42 million from the Matthew and Carolyn Bucksbaum Family Foundation.
Dr
Mark Siegler
Mark Siegler (born June 20, 1941) is an American physician who specializes in internal medicine. He is the Lindy Bergman Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Chicago. , He is the Founding Director of Chi ...
is the establishing chief.
Core areas
The institute has four core goals:
To promote the practice of
Shared decision-making in medicine
Shared decision-making in medicine (SDM) is a process in which both the patient and physician contribute to the medical decision-making process and agree on treatment decisions. Health care providers explain treatments and alternatives to pa ...
To advance
social justice
Social justice is justice in terms of the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society. In Western and Asian cultures, the concept of social justice has often referred to the process of ensuring that individuals fu ...
by reducing health disparities
To build & promote compassionate medical students and physicians.
To focus on the social sciences and humanities, that are frequently disregarded by conventional clinical school programs.
Bucksbaum Institute scholars range from premedical undergraduates, faculty scholars, senior physicians, master clinicians to International scholars who champion the cause of shared decision making; and apply clinical medical ethics as the standard of care to reduce health disparities.
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Non-profit organizations based in Chicago
Ethics organizations
Bioethics research organizations
Think tanks based in the United States
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