AMA Journal of Ethics

COVID-19 teaches us how to design a unified health care system that transcends historical precedent.

Some patients who need general medical care before a dental intervention can suffer increased risk for poor outcomes if they have compromised access to care.

Five lessons from the patient-centered medical home could help motivate infrastructure investment, care innovation, and payment reforms critical to achieving equity.

Despite availability of good national oral health curricula for medical trainees, most physicians are ill-equipped to identify oral cancers or avoid unnecessary referrals.

Poor oral health has been neglected as a public health threat, despite recognition as “epidemic” in scale by the US Office of the Surgeon General.

There are fewer Black men in US medical schools today than in 1970, although their contributions are key to building medicine’s capacity to equitably promote healing.

Schools are permitted to construct URiM definitions, suggesting the importance of regarding them as fluid works in progress as US demographics evolve.

A culture of safety and respect in sites of health care education and work is foundational to the well-being of everyone in health care.

Retention, student progression, and career advancement milestones are at least as important as admissions in promoting just medical education opportunity.

Focus on diversity is critical, yet most US schools have failed to achieve racial-ethnic or economic diversity representative of the general US population.