Learn about a reflective decision-making approach to selecting a practice setting and culture.

The question is whether the medi-spa is a consumer-driven, profit-motivated business that happens to fall under the purview of medical practice or a legitimate and integral part of the health care system? Does it fulfill consumers’ desires or relieve suffering and promote wellness?

Competitive behaviors can undermine a clerkship student’s residency goals and weaken team collaboration and communication.

Identifies factors that contribute to the trend away from primary care practice among medical students and possible correctives to the trend.

Two of today’s health care distribution problems—geographic areas without enough physicians and decrease in numbers of primary care physicians overall—can be remedied by increasing pay for resident and fully trained physicians.

Science attempts to explain how different types of personalities manage stress and what stress-management style might mean for the health of highly competitive people.

A range of coursework in research ethics is available to medical students through the National Institutes of Health’s educational programs.

Institutional review boards (IRBs) play a role in approving research that involves human subjects.

As the focus of medical research shifts toward studies that involve human subjects, conflicts between the agenda of scientific advancement and principles of biomedical ethics will increase.

Public and private choices about allocation of funds for research raise a social-justice question: are these funding sources making fair decisions about where to invest their resources? The NIH has the clearest obligation to do so because it is taxpayer-supported.