The Bander Center for Medical Business Ethics’ goals and programs.

A physician argues that pharmaceutical industry support for residency programs creates a conflict of interest and compromises the educational integrity of the programs.

Physicians in training need more exposure to palliative care scenarios, skills, and models than most currently receive.

Racial and ethnic inequity exists throughout the lifespan, including at the end of life.

Calls to expand palliative care education have been explicit since the 1990s, but palliative care training in surgery remains too narrowly focused on end of life.

Futility can function as a moral counterweight to a duty to treat, helping clinicians  find balance between over- and undertreatment.