Cases

Topics

Core Competencies

Specialties

Month

Year

Jan. 2000

Performing Physical Exams on Fellow Students
Audiey Kao, MD, PhD

Virtual Mentor. 2000;2(1):1-1. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2000.2.1.hlaw1-0001.
Dec. 1999

Disclosing the Truth about Medical Error
Audiey Kao, MD, PhD

Virtual Mentor. 1999;1(4):-. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.1999.1.4.hlaw1-9912.
Nov. 1999

Who Makes Contraceptive Decisions for Adolescents?
Faith Lagay, PhD

Virtual Mentor. 1999;1(3):-. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.1999.1.3.hlaw1-9911.
Oct. 1999

The Ethics of "Ghost" Surgery
Audiey Kao, MD, PhD

Virtual Mentor. 1999;1(2):-. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.1999.1.2.hlaw1-9910.
Sep. 1999

If a Colleague is Impaired
Audiey Kao, MD, PhD

Virtual Mentor. 1999;1(1):-. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.1999.1.1.hlaw1-9909.

AMA Journal of Ethics

Illuminating the Art of Medicine

Cases

Performing Physical Exams on Fellow Students

Disclosing the Truth about Medical Error

Who Makes Contraceptive Decisions for Adolescents?

The Ethics of "Ghost" Surgery

If a Colleague is Impaired

Abuse/Child or elder abuse
Abuse/Duty to report
Abuse/Intimate partner abuse
Abuse/Prostitution
Abuse/Student abuse
Access to care/Cost barriers
Access to care/Gender or gender transition barriers
Access to care/Geographical barriers
Access to care/Language barriers
Access to care/Racial, ethnic barriers
Access to care/Rights
Autonomy/Capacity, competency for making decisions
Autonomy/Informed consent
Autonomy/Quality of life
Autonomy/Shared decision making
Chronic disease/Cancer
Chronic disease/Cardiovascular disease
Chronic disease/Diabetes
Chronic disease/HIV, AIDS
Chronic disease/Mental health
Chronic disease/Obesity
Chronic disease/Other
Clinical research/Authorship
Clinical research/Dual roles as clinicians and researchers
Clinical research/Dual use research
Clinical research/Informed consent
Clinical research/Institutional review boards
Clinical research/Vulnerable populations
Clinicians as business owners/Clinician relations with industry
Clinicians as business owners/Profit motive
Confidentiality/Adolescent care
Confidentiality/Complying with judicial requests
Confidentiality/Duty to inform others at-risk
Confidentiality/Duty to protect confidential information
Confidentiality/Duty to report infectious diseases
Confidentiality/Duty to report suspected abuse
Confidentiality/Genetic information
Confidentiality/Patient privacy
Conflicts of interest/Clinician relations with industry
Conflicts of interest/Clinicians as agents of the state
Conflicts of interest/Clinicians as business owners
Conflicts of interest/Donations
Conflicts of interest/Dual roles as clinicians and researchers
Conflicts of interest/Military physician
Conflicts of interest/Profit motive
Conflicts of interest/Sponsorship
Conflicts of interest/VIP patients
Culturally-conscious care/Language barriers
Culturally-conscious care/Race, ethnicity in healthcare
Culturally-conscious care/Religion and spirituality
Decision making/Assent
Decision making/Autonomy
Decision making/Best interests
Decision making/Capacity, competency
Decision making/Patient and family centered care
Decision making/Surrogate
Degenerative neurological conditions/Alzheimer’s Disease
Degenerative neurological conditions/Dementia
Degenerative neurological conditions/Minimally conscious state
Degenerative neurological conditions/Persistent vegetative state
Diagnosis/Cost-effectiveness
Diagnosis/Disclosing diagnoses
Diagnosis/Errors
Diagnosis/Patient request for a specific diagnosis
Diagnosis/Patient request for a specific test or procedure
Diagnosis/Sexually transmitted infections
Digital health care/E-mail between patients and clinicians
Digital health care/Electronic health records
Digital health care/Health information apps
Digital health care/Physician-rating sites
Digital health care/Portals
Digital health care/Telemedicine
Disability/Defining disability
Disability/Impairment
Disability/Learning disability
Disability/Mental illness
Disability/Neurodiversity
Disability/Quality of Life
Disparities in health and health care/Clinician bias
Disparities in health and health care/Lifestyle and health
Disparities in health and health care/Mental health parity
Disparities in health and health care/Race and ethnicity
Disparities in health and health care/Social determinants
End-of-life care/Advance directives
End-of-life care/Assisted suicide
End-of-life care/Durable power of attorney for health care
End-of-life care/Goals
End-of-life care/Hospice
End-of-life care/Nutrition and hydration
End-of-life care/Palliative care
End-of-life care/Quality of life
End-of-life care/Refusal of life-sustaining treatment
End-of-life care/Spirituality
End-of-life care/Surrogate decision making
End-of-life care/Withholding and withdrawing
Ethics/Biomedical research
Ethics/Education
Ethics/Ethics consultation
Ethics/Health policy
Ethics/Practice
Ethics/Theory
Evidence-based practice/Effectiveness
Gender, sex identity/Ambiguous genitalia, sex assignment
Gender, sex identity/Confidentiality
Gender, sex identity/Gender transition
Gender, sex identity/LGBTQI
Gender, sex identity/Puberty suppression
Gender, sex identity/Transgender health
Genetics/Confidentiality
Genetics/Determinants of behavior
Genetics/Enhancement
Genetics/Genetic counseling
Genetics/Genetic testing
Genetics/Informing others at-risk
Genetics/Personalized medicine
Genetics/Preimplantation genetic diagnosis
Genetics/Selection of offspring traits
Global health/Global health system development
Global health/Role of health professions students
Goals of health care/Acute care
Goals of health care/Complementary and alternative medicine
Goals of health care/Enhancement
Goals of health care/Palliative care
Health determinants/Biopsychosocial model of health
Health determinants/Public health
Health policy/Affordable Care Act
Health policy/Clinician advocacy
Health policy/Health care as a right
Health professions education/Humanities in health professions education
Health professions education/Learner roles and responsibilities
Health professions education/Medical education
Health professions education/Medical hierarchy
Health professions education/Migration of health professionals
Health professions education/Role models, mentoring
Health professions education/Scope of practice
Health professions education/Socialization
High value care/Cost of care
High value care/Defensive practice
High value care/Quality improvement
High value care/Value-based payment models
Infectious diseases/Duty to report
Infectious diseases/Epidemics
Infectious diseases/Expedited partner therapy
Infectious diseases/HIV, AIDS
Infectious diseases/Illicit drug use
Infectious diseases/Quarantine
Infectious diseases/Sexually transmitted infections
Infectious diseases/Vaccine refusal
Informed consent/Capacity, competency for making decisions
Informed consent/Criteria
Interprofessionalism/Interprofessional education
Interprofessionalism/Scope of practice
Interprofessionalism/Team-based care
Justice/Equitable care
Justice/Human rights
Justice/Human trafficking
Justice/Resource allocation
Justice/Undocumented patients
Law and medicine/Defensive medicine
Law and medicine/Expert witness
Law and medicine/Malpractice
Mental health/Addiction
Mental health/Alzheimer’s disease
Mental health/Capacity, competency
Mental health/Depression
Mental health/Disability
Mental health/Disparities
Mental health/Eating disorders
Mental health/Neurodiversity
Mental health/Parity for mental health services
Mental health/Personality disorders
Mental health/Psychosis
Mental health/Somatization disorders
Mental health/Substance use
Nutrition/Access to nutritious food/food deserts
Nutrition/Supplements
Organ transplantation/Advertising for donors
Organ transplantation/Definition of death
Organ transplantation/Organ allocation
Organ transplantation/Organ donation
Organ transplantation/Organ trafficking
Pain/Management
Pain/Palliative care
Patient safety/Apologies
Patient safety/Error disclosure
Patient safety/Iatrogenic harm
Patient safety/Mandatory reporting
Patient safety/Scope of practice
Patient-clinician relationship/Boundaries
Patient-clinician relationship/Caregiver stress and demands
Patient-clinician relationship/Conflict of values
Patient-clinician relationship/Difficult relationships
Patient-clinician relationship/Ending the relationship
Patient-clinician relationship/Establishing the relationship, trust
Patient-clinician relationship/Medical tourism
Patient-clinician relationship/Paternalism
Patient-clinician relationship/Patient, family-centered care
Patient-clinician relationship/Patients’ responsibility for their health
Patient-clinician relationship/Use of placebos
Patient-clinician relationship/Vulnerable patients
Professionalism/Clinician advocacy
Professionalism/Clinicians and labor actions
Professionalism/Clinicians as citizens
Professionalism/Duty to treat
Professionalism/duty to warn or report
Professionalism/Impaired clinicians
Professionalism/Intraprofessional disagreement
Professionalism/Off-label prescribing and care
Professionalism/Professional governance
Professionalism/Professional integrity
Professionalism/Professional satisfaction
Public health/Chronic disease management
Public health/Climate and the environment
Public health/Clinical research
Public health/Credentialing and licensure
Public health/Disaster preparedness
Public health/Disparities
Public health/Media influence
Public health/Prostitution
Public health/Public policy intervention
Public health/Public safety
Public health/Sexually transmitted infections
Public health/Violence
Race, ethnicity and health care/Affirmative action in admissions
Race, ethnicity and health care/Disparities
Race, ethnicity and health care/Research
Race, ethnicity and health care/Structural racism
Religion and health care/Catholicism
Religion and health care/Conscientious objection
Religion and health care/Islam
Religion and health care/Judaism
Religion and health care/Refusal to treat
Reproductive health/Abortion
Reproductive health/Contraception
Reproductive health/Embryo donation
Reproductive health/In vitro fertilization
Reproductive health/Offspring trait selection
Reproductive health/Preimplantation genetic diagnosis
Reproductive health/Sperm donation
Reproductive health/Surrogate gestation
Social media/Organs
Social media/Use by clinicians
Social media/Use by patients
Social media/Use by students

Adolescent Medicine
Anesthesiology
Cardiology
Dermatology
Emergency Medicine
Endocrinology
Family Medicine
Geriatrics
Hospitalist Medicine
Infectious Disease
Internal Medicine
Neonatology
Neurology
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Oncology
Ophthalmology
Pathology
Pediatrics
Plastic Surgery
Psychiatry
Radiology
Rehabilitation Medicine
Sports Medicine
Surgery