RESOLVED, That the North Carolina Medical Society supports the fundamental principles and the set of professional responsibilities articulated in the 2004 American Board of Internal Medicine/American College of Physician Foundation statement, Medical Professionalism in the New Millennium, A Physician Charter:

The fundamental principles of medical professionalism are:

• Primacy of patient welfare;
• Patient autonomy;
• Social justice.

The set of responsibilities are commitments to:

• Professional competence;
• Honesty with patients;
• Patient confidentiality;
• Maintaining appropriate relations with patients;
• Improving quality of care;
• Improving access to care;
• A just distribution of finite resources;
• Scientific knowledge;
• Maintaining trust by managing conflicts of interest; and
• Professional responsibilities;