The ABIM Foundation’s annual Forum convenes clinicians, medical students, patients, health care journalists, health care regulators, payers, and leaders of consumer organizations to discuss an emerging or ongoing trend in health care.
Since 2018, the Forum has explored facets of trust.
- 2025 — Reimagining Professionalism: Hope in a Shifting Medical Landscape
Examined the pressures facing clinicians and highlighted practical, forward-looking approaches that strengthened trust, connection, and patient outcomes. - 2024 — Being a Trustworthy Professional in an Untrusting World
Explored intellectual humility, the limits of expertise, and the importance of honoring patient perspectives, emphasizing accountability and professionalism as foundations of trust. - 2023 — Reframing Trust: A Path to Address Misinformation
Examined how mistrust has been shaped by cultural, religious, and historical contexts, and highlighted the importance of understanding diverse perspectives and recognizing the “peopleness” of patients. - 2022 — Fact or Fiction: Strategies for the Misinformation Age
Explored the challenges of communicating facts in a polarized environment and the role of clinicians and cross-sector collaboration in addressing misinformation. - 2021 — Pursuing Trust: Striving for Equitable Health Care
Examined bias in traditional standards, the importance of equity-centered approaches, and how individuals and institutions have advanced more inclusive, trustworthy systems. - 2020 — Building Trust & Health Equity
Examined the impact of structural harm on mistrust and the role of empathy, communication, and collective action in strengthening relationship-centered care and reducing disparities. - 2019 — [Re]Building Trust: A Path Forward
Focused on continuity, psychological safety, and humility in strengthening relationships between patients and clinicians and improving trust within health care systems. - 2018 — [Re]Building Trust
Examined trust across health care relationships, systems, and contexts, laying the foundation for ongoing exploration of trust in health care.
