The AMA Journal of Ethics internship program for students of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago furthers the journal's health professions educational mission by illuminating art's capacity to deepen ethical inquiry into clinical practice, public health, and health equity. The journal has also partnered with Art Institute of Chicago experts to feature innovative content at the intersection of art, ethics, and health care.
Image: Water Lilies, 1906, by Claude Monet. Mr and Mrs Martin A. Ryerson Collection, Art Institute of Chicago. This information, which is available on the object page for each work, is also made available under Creative Commons Zero.
May 2025 - Is Pursuing Profit Commensurable With Providing Good Health Care?
May 2025 - What Are Physicians’ Duties to Patients When They Sell Their Practices?
May 2025 - How Should We Stop Private Equity Firms From Exploiting Public Health Insurance?
Apr 2025 - How Should We Better Express Respect for Surgical Patients Who Are Incarcerated?
Apr 2025 - How Should Physicians Manage Traumatic Injuries Sustained During Incarceration?
Mar 2025 - Regret Is Endemic to Surgical Professional Life and Navigating It Is a Skill
Mar 2025 - Which Systemic Responses Should We Evolve to Help Surgeons Navigate Their Regret Experiences?
Mar 2025 - Should Surgeons Share Experiences of Regret With Patients?
Mar 2025 - What Are Organizations’ Responsibilities When Surgeons Experience Regret?
Mar 2025 - COVID-19 in 2024
Mar 2025 - Teletherapy Ethics
Feb 2025 - How We Lie About Pain
Feb 2025 - How Should Physicians Manage Abortion Pain Experienced by Remote Telehealth Patients?
Feb 2025 - Key Roles of Epistemic Humility in OB/GYN Care of Patients in Acute Non-Labor and Delivery Pain Care
Feb 2025 - Visual Abstract of “Gender-Affirming Care, Incarceration, and the Eighth Amendment”
Feb 2025 - Response to “Humanity and Inhumanity of Nonhuman Primate Research”
Jan 2025 - How Historical Legacies Inform Contemporary Epidemiology and Medicine
Jan 2025 - How Should Epidemiologists Respond to Data Genocide?
Jan 2025 - Right in the Eye
Dec 2024 - How Design Affects Health
Dec 2024 - Who Should Contribute to Decisions About Health Care Space Design?
Nov 2024 - Peace in Health Care
Nov 2024 - Using Music to Teach Health Professions Students to Listen Closely and Promote Peace
Nov 2024 - Why Prospective Bereavement Counseling Is Crucial for Peace-Finding After Loss
Oct 2024 - Sleep Stewardship
Oct 2024 - Who Should Talk to Patients and How About Whether They Have Access to Sufficient, Quality Sleep?
Aug 2024 - Medical-Legal Partnerships and the Future of Health Care
Jul 2024 - What Would Equitable Harm Reduction Look Like?
Jun 2024 - What Does Disability Justice Require of Antimicrobial Stewardship?
Jun 2024 - When Should Patients at the End of Life Get Antimicrobials?
May 2024 - Should Antimicrobial Resistance Limit Access to an Organ Transplant?
May 2024 - How Should We Manage Antimicrobial Resistance in Resource-Limited Settings?
Apr 2024 - Mapping a Way to Displaced Persons’ Access to Quality Medicines
Feb 2024 - Five Things Clinicians Need to Know About Zoonotic Viral Spillover and Spillback
Feb 2024 - Why Climate Literacy Is Health Literacy
Jan 2024 - Centering Justice in Health Professions Education by Owning Limitations of Anti-Bias Checklists
Jan 2024 - What Might It Mean to Embrace Emancipatory Pedagogy in Medical Education?
Jan 2024 - Aspiring to Disability Consciousness in Health Professions Training
Dec 2023 - When and How Should Clinicians View Discharge Planning as Part of a Patient’s Care Continuum?
Dec 2023 - Why Should Physicians Care About What Law Says About Turfing and Dumping Patients?
Nov 2023 - Why Loneliness Deserves Attention From Health Care
Nov 2023 - What Should Students Learn About the Importance of Cultural Brokering in Immigrant Communities?
Nov 2023 - Should Artificial Intelligence Play a Role in Cultivating Social Connections Among Older Adults?
Nov 2023 - On Health and Loneliness
Oct 2023 - Why Should We Care About the Mental Health of Older Adults?
Oct 2023 - How to Draw on Narrative to Mitigate Ageism
Oct 2023 - Ageism as a Source of Global Mental Health Inequity
Sep 2023 - Palliative Approaches to Psychiatry
Sep 2023 - Does It Matter Whether a Psychiatric Intervention Is “Palliative”?
Sep 2023 - Is There a Case for Palliative Care Addiction Psychiatry?
Sep 2023 - A Life-Affirming Palliative Care Model for Severe and Enduring Anorexia Nervosa
Sep 2023 - What Should Clinicians Know About Palliative Psychopharmacology?
Aug 2023 - Should Robot-Assisted Surgery Tolerate or Even Accommodate Less Surgical Dexterity?
Aug 2023 - What Pediatric Robotic Surgery Since 2000 Suggests About Ethics, Limits, and Innovation
Jul 2023 - How We Over Rely on BMI
Jul 2023 - What’s Wrong With Overreliance on BMI?
Jul 2023 - Should BMI Help Determine Gender-Affirming Surgery Candidacy?
Jul 2023 - Five Ways Health Care Can Be Better for Fat People
Jul 2023 - Overreliance on BMI and Delayed Care for Patients With Higher BMI and Disordered Eating
Jun 2023 - Patient-Centered Approaches to Using BMI to Evaluate Gender-Affirming Surgery Eligibility
Jun 2023 - Gender-Affirming Care, Incarceration, and the Eighth Amendment
May 2023 - Interprofessional Learning and Psychiatric Expertise in Mental Health Courts
Apr 2023 - Meat and Health
Apr 2023 - Should Clinicians Care About How Food Behaviors Express Gender Identity?
Mar 2023 - On Stage, But Not on Cue
Feb 2023 - How Should Clinicians Minimize Bias When Responding to Suspicions About Child Abuse?
Feb 2023 - What the COVID-19 Pandemic Teaches Us About Pediatric Iatrogenic Risk
Feb 2023 - How Should We Respond When Clinicians’ Calls to CPS Are Punitively Weaponized Against Families?
Jan 2023 - How Does Racial Segregation Taint Medical Pedagogy?
Dec 2022 - Empathy and Calm as Social Resources in Clinical Practice
Dec 2022 - For Clinicians to Do Less, Organizations Must Do More
Dec 2022 - Why Money Is Well Spent on Time
Nov 2022 - Ethical Dimensions of Pricing Transparency
Nov 2022 - Necessity for and Limitations of Price Transparency in American Health Care
Oct 2022 - What Would It Mean for Health Care Organizations to Justly Manage Their Waste?
Oct 2022 - How Should US Health Care Lead Global Change in Plastic Waste Disposal?
Oct 2022 - Questioning Marriage and Family Norms
Aug 2022 - How Cisgender Clinicians Can Help Prevent Harm During Encounters With Transgender Patients
Aug 2022 - Clinicians’ Racial Biases as Pathways to Iatrogenic Harms for Black People
May 2022 - Do You Know How to Assess Risks Posed by Over-the-Counter Vitamin A Supplements?
Apr 2022 - How Should US Health Care Meet Latinx Community Health Needs?
Mar 2022 - Toward Abolitionist Approaches in Medicine
Feb 2022 - Public Health Calls for Changes in Police Practices
Jan 2022 - Time for Dental Care to Be Considered Essential in US Health Care Policy
Dec 2021 - Why Disability Must Be Included in Medical School Diversification Efforts
Oct 2021 - Which Priorities Should Guide Palliative Surgical Research?
Sep 2021 - Is the FDA Failing Women?
Aug 2021 - How Does Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Inform Health Care Decisions?
Jul 2021 - Three Things to Learn and Do in Practice with Patients With Disabilities
Jun 2021 - Drowning Outside the Insurance Pool
May 2021 - How to Counter Fake Health Information
Oct 2020 - Indigenous Apocalypse and Transgenerational Trauma
Aug 2020 - What Artists and Museum Educators Can Teach Us About Combatting the Opioid Epidemic
Jul 2020 - Should We Be Laughing More in Art Museums and Hospitals?
May 2020 - Salvation in a Time of Plague
Aug 2020 - Sanctuary Health Care
Nov 2020 - Risk Management Ethics
Nov 2020 - How Should Risk Managers Respond to Cases for Which No Risk Profile Exists?
Dec 2020 - Inconsistency in Brain Death Determination Should Not Be Tolerated
Dec 2019 - What Does Multiple Production of Artworks Teach Us About Authenticity and Germline Editing?
May 2019 - Sustaining the Lives of Art Objects
Feb 2019 - What Do Warhol, Pollock, and Murakami Teach Us About AI in Health Care?