The Interdisciplinary Medical Decision Making Initiative (IMDMI), which is jointly funded by the University and the School of Medicine, reflects Duke’s institutional commitment to high-quality research in medical decision making and aims to promote better decision making by caregivers and patients.

The IMDMI's goals are:

• to facilitate communication among decision faculty in different schools of the University
• to promote collaborative research among faculty in different parts of the University
• to identify and take advantage of opportunities for educating care providers at Duke on issues pertaining to medical decision making
• to aid in the development of tools to improve medical decision making at Duke.