The AMA Code of Medical Ethics' opinions on physicians’ participation in clinical research.

Online health communities offer patients the opportunity to interact with those who have been diagnosed with a disease, track their health information on the site, and become involved in research, but the community sites cannot guarantee privacy of patient information.

It is important for young medical professionals to understand the many systems of professional regulation and their role in defining and enforcing standards of professional conduct.

Feminist pedagogical strategies can help combat hierarchy and marginalization in health professions education.

Medical school faculty have a nonnegotiable duty to report students whose professional behavior falls seriously short of the mark. If they refrain from fulfilling this duty for fear of retaliation, the antiharassment pendulum has truly swung too far.

The Association of American Medical Colleges has added and refined questions about mistreatment in medical education to its Graduation Questionnaire, increasing the amount and specificity of information about what kinds of incidents occur and how students feel about them.

Despite increased awareness of the problem, attempts at ameliorating medical student abuse have been largely unsuccessful.

The eradication of hazing has not diminished the socialization, camaraderie, or commitment of new recruits. The physical, emotional, and mental demands of basic training suffice to produce the outcomes previously ascribed to hazing.

Role-playing exercises, which help participants understand the experience of being harassed, can be helpful in addressing mistreatment in medical education.

Slavishly following traditional educational methods, on the grounds that "it worked when I was at medical school and didn’t do me any harm," demonstrates a degree of moral vacuity that demeans the medical profession.