The journal editor encourages retired physicians to share their expertise and knowledge of core medical values by mentoring medical students and new physicians.

An ethical case explores whether a third-year medical student should inform the attending physician that a patient's back injury was not work-related, even though it will jeopardize the patient's Worker's Compensation benefits.

An article from a 2002 issue of JAMA discusses competence as a form of professionalism, and suggests that a commitment to competence and excellence is a way of ensuring ethical behavior and improving the physician-patient relationship.

Teachers of medicine are encouraged to use the provided PowerPoint presentation, which provides a brief historical overview of medical oaths and highlights how the AMA's Code of Medical Ethics can provide valuable guidance to students and physicians who confront challenging issues in medicine.

Norman Rockwell's 1929 cover vignette for The Saturday Evening Post called Doctor and Doll depicts an idealized patient-doctor interaction, uncomplicated by social, ethical, and scientific dilemmas of the day.

Physicians can enhance communication with patients and their families about end-of-life issues through the use of active listening, simple silence, and open-ended questions, provided in unambiguous, clear terms.

Little-known medical trivia relating to golf.

H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., professor of philosophy at Rice University and professor emeritus at Baylor College of Medicine, is a leading bioethicist whose writings, research, and teachings of strive to increase professionalism in medicine.