Trivia about escalating medical school costs.

A new Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs policy explicitly forbids physicians-in-training from practicing life-saving interventions on newly deceased individuals without consent.

Educating for Professionalism

An ethical case explores whether a first-year resident could excuse herself from training that requires her to examine or treat genitorectal areas of males due to her Islamic religion and her future plans to only treat children and adult women.

An African American physician recounts the life experiences that led to her career choice and discusses the potential impact of a caregiver's race or ethnicity on patient-physician communication.

A photograph from the first AMA House of Delegates meeting in 1901 highlights the issues of physician demographics and whether the profession has adequately addressed diversity in the profession.

Little-known medical trivia.

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.

Physicians need to be aware of the legal and ethical issues raised by genetic information and technology, as evidenced by three court rulings dealing with prenatal testing and a family predisposition to genetic genetically transferred illness.

David R. Block, a first-year medical student at the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, reflects on his first day of gross anatomy and what it means to embark on a medical education.