Effective interprofessional collaboration and patient care require understanding team members’ roles and responsibilities and clear communication.

Interprofessional collaboration is a vital part of medical education. When a medical student resists learning from a nurse-midwife on a rotation, how should an academic medical faculty member respond?

Introduction to the September 2016 issue on ethics and interprofessionalism in medical education.

Interprofessional education facilitates health care team members’ communication, which impacts patient care, and thus is relevant to medical ethics.

Teams are smartest when everyone feels free to speak up and function best when leadership is inclusive and patient-focused.

The separation of dental and medical care is a medical ethics issue because it negatively impacts vulnerable populations who lack access to dental care.

Patient safety is a medical ethics issue that must be addressed through health care teams’ open communication as well as through time-outs and checklists.

Introduction to the August 2016 issue on ethics in pathology.

The communication training program at University of Washington Medical Center aims to develop best practices for effective pathology communication.

The allocation of scarce resources, such as HLA platelets, involves a conflict between the medical ethics principles of beneficence and social justice.