Graphic pathographies are effective patient and medical student education tools and raise interesting, perhaps unexpected, ethical issues.

Mean, abusive, and disruptive behavior among physicians interferes with teamwork and may result in decreased patient safety. Therefore, it must be discouraged through reinforcement of appropriate behavioral norms.

Feminist pedagogical strategies can help combat hierarchy and marginalization in health professions education.

The AMA Code of Medical Ethics' opinion on sexual harassment of medical students and residents.

This month, theme issue editor Ajay Major, a medical student at Albany Medical College, interviewed Dr. Pauline Chen about the problem of bullying in medical education.

Students are not obligated to keep their instructors' behavior and remarks confidential.

In the September 2014 issue on physicians as agents of social change, Dr. Audiey Kao, editor-in-chief of Virtual Mentor interviewed Dr. Rajiv Shah, administrator of the United States Agency for International Development or USAID.

To succeed, medical teams must work to develop team cognition and coordination, a cooperative spirit, and active fostering of teamwork.

When health professionals work collaboratively, scope of practice becomes more about defining roles and responsibilities among team members than about maintaining separate territories.

Whether a physician fancies herself a member of the Green Party or the Tea Party, he or she must obey our government’s rules in her advocacy for that cause and be extremely diligent in those increasingly rare instances when she feels herself compelled not to do so.