The authors make the argument that the pharmaceutical industry should in no way be connected to the funding of continuing medical education.

A physician outlines the role of the ACCME and its responsibility to successfully manage the boundary between continuing medical education and the commercial support, commercial interests, promotion and advertising related to it.

The general responsibilities of bioethicists include consulting on clinical ethics issues, sitting on hospital ethics committees, engaging in policy development, and educating others about ethics.

High-fidelity simulation techniques provide opportunities for medial trainees to develop expertise in practical skills that would otherwise require a great deal of experience to develop in clinical practice.

Cheating behaviors express characterological vices that undermine trustworthiness, which is key to executing stewardship duties well.

Dr Christy A. Rentmeester joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “Should We Think of Early Career Cheaters as Capable of Stewardship?”

Sets the ethical limits of student participation in patient care when the students are part of foreign medical teams.

identifies the pitfalls of improperly organized international medical student electives and the hazards of volunteering for the wrong reasons.

Students who take international electives must be sensitive to the impact of their presence and to possible risks to patients' safety and their own, and must ask whether their motives for going abroad are overly self-serving.

The medical subspecialty of adolescent medicine grew out of the specialized needs of the growing adolescent population.