Founded in 2003, the Institute on Medicine as a Profession (IMAP) is an American non-profit health care policy think tank housed at

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in New York City. Its primary area of focus is the concept of medical professionalism. Other areas of IMAP's academic focus include

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in the health care industry; the role of physicians in national security interrogations; marketing practices in the drug, alcohol, food and tobacco industries; and health information technology. IMAP also funds a physician advocacy grants program that aims to train physicians to advocate for policy change at the local, state and national level. It is also a partner and co-sponsor of the China-US Center on Medical Professionalism based in Beijing.

History and Funding

IMAP grew from the

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’s Medicine as a Profession initiative, which ran from 1999-2004. In 2003, the Open Society Institute gave a grant of $7.5 million to establish the Institute on Medicine as Profession as an independent entity, to be chaired by David J. Rothman, professor at

, and housed at Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons. The Institute has also received grants from

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, the

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, the

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, and Permanente Medical Group. It does not accept funding from industry sources.

References

External links

Institute on Medicine as a Profession website

Open Society Institute website
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