The Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care are the basis of Catholic health care practices.

Introduces a Virtual Mentor theme issue on professionalism based on New York University's medical school professionalism portfolio program.

A commentary on the importance of constructive peer feedback in medical student clerkships and suggestions on how to give such feedback appropriately.

A review of research that found that physicians disciplined by state medical boards were as much as three times more likely than controls to have had a record of unprofessional behavior in medical school.

Medical education research is emerging as a career path for academic physicians. The research is dedicated to improving the process and outcomes of physician training by applying the scientific method to questions raised in that training.

Two points of view on whether a no-fault system will ameliorate the medical liability crisis in the US.

Suggests to medical students what forms of self-disclosure are acceptable during clinical encounters and when self-disclosure might be interpreted by patients as taking attention away from them.

No clinical consensus exists about when to intervene in hyperkalemia, a common electrolyte imbalance complicated by the recent increased use of medications for hypertension that affect the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system.

Two points of view on whether a no-fault system will ameliorate the medical liability crisis in the US.

This commentary examines the consequences of a medical student’s dishonesty during clinical rounds when she lacked the lab results the attending physician asked her for.