Dr Travis Rieder discusses his own experiences with opioids and the ethical challenges of “legacy patients,” and Dr Stephanie Zaza, president of the American College of Preventive Medicine, discusses the future of opioid research priorities.
Julian Willoughby, MD, MPH, Vu Nguyen, MD, MBA, and William L. Bockenek, MD
The ACGME milestones initiative promises to improve the process of assessing medical resident competency by providing, throughout the course of residency training, systematic, comprehensive, and specialty-specific evaluation of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Education’s six clinical competencies.
AMA J Ethics. 2015;17(6):515-520. doi:
10.1001/journalofethics.2015.17.6.medu1-1506.
Efforts are underway to make posttraumatic stress disorder a condition for which the Veterans Administration will authorize coverage for use of service dogs.
AMA J Ethics. 2015;17(6):547-552. doi:
10.1001/journalofethics.2015.17.6.hlaw1-1506.