A range of coursework in research ethics is available to medical students through the National Institutes of Health’s educational programs.

Specific contributions to a scientific article entitle the contributor to be included as an author; requests for authorship by those who have not made those specific contributions are unethical.

The bias for publishing positive clinical-research results can cause physicians to question journal articles as dependable sources of product information.

Faculty gifts to individual residents or students can be perceived as favoritism and should be avoided, unless the same gift is made available to all.

A proposal for non-disciplinary physician accountability by means of electronic medical record audits.

An argument that physicians who refuse to respond to emergency department calls are acting unprofessionally by declaring, in effect, that their needs are more important than those of their colleagues.

The state medical board has limited ability to regulate rude and insensitive physician speech.

A review of research that found that physicians disciplined by state medical boards were as much as three times more likely than controls to have had a record of unprofessional behavior in medical school.

A first-person account of the development and implementation of a professionalism curriculum at New York University School of Medicine that uses online student portfolios as its principal means for evaluating professional development.

This commentary examines the consequences of a medical student’s dishonesty during clinical rounds when she lacked the lab results the attending physician asked her for.