Investing Time in Patients

A case that explores whether it is coercive and inappropriate for an attending physician to request that a female medical student volunteer so that other students can practice performing pelvic examinations.

Readers are referred to a chapter of a book and then asked to consider the importance of empathy in the patient-physician relationship.

The journal invites students to share their observations and reflections of healing and learning captured in photographs taken during their medical training.

Readers are referred to an article in a 1995 issue of JAMA by C. Morai-Young about a patient's medical experience to help physicians experience health care from the patient's perspective.

Little-known medical trivia.

Calls for students to submit their nominations for physician role models with a short profile of Sir William Osler, a late 19th century practitioner who advocated for physicians to practice medicine with a clear head and unflappable demeanor.