Search Results Search Sort by RelevanceMost Recent Original Research Jan 2022 Promoting Children’s Health Equity With Medical-Dental Integration Ana Zea, DDS, DrPH and Michelle Henshaw, DDS, MPH In 2015, a community health center in Boston, Massachusetts, implemented a model of interdisciplinary care in a nationwide pilot. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(1):E33-40. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.33. Policy Forum Aug 2020 Advocacy and Action to End the Opioid Epidemic by the AMA Opioid Task Force Patrice A. Harris, MD, MA and Bobby Mukkamala, MD Six recommendations focus on specific actions to help reverse the nation’s opioid epidemic. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(8):E718-722. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.718. Policy Forum Aug 2020 Ethical Imperatives to Overcome Stigma Against People With Substance Use Disorders VADM Jerome M. Adams, MD, MPH and Nora D. Volkow, MD Responding to opioid use disorder as a US public health crisis requires all clinicians to recognize addiction as a treatable disease. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(8):E702-708. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.702. Policy Forum Aug 2020 How Structural Violence, Prohibition, and Stigma Have Paralyzed North American Responses to Opioid Overdose Mark Tyndall, MD, ScD and Zoë Dodd, MES Driven by toxic, unpredictable, unregulated supply, drug overdose deaths are rampant. Policies that support the war on drugs have to change to be helpful. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(8):E723-728. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.723. Policy Forum Sep 2022 Roles of Environmental Services Workers’ Wages and Status in Patient Safety David Sine, DBioethics and Lloyd Duplechan This article offers a risk management standpoint on environmental services as a mission-critical function of any health care organization. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(9):E876-882. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.876. Policy Forum Apr 2023 How Should We Improve How Medical and Veterinary Students Learn About Human and Nonhuman Animals? Zoe Griffiths, MA and Jeff Sebo, PhD There are 5 things every clinician should know about why environmental threats matter to human and nonhuman animals’ health. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(4):E272-277. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.272. Original Research May 2023 How Do Classroom-Based Interprofessional Education Interactions Influence Medical Students’ Clerkship Experiences? Mary Claire Potter, Kelly Horton, MAT, and Erica Chou, MD Classroom-based IPE has been shown to improve medical students’ understandings of competencies, but less is known about how they apply clinically. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(5):E344-352. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.344. Policy Forum Mar 2005 Confidentiality and Consent in Adolescent Substance Abuse: An Update Melissa Weddle, MD, MPH and Patricia K. Kokotailo, MD, MPH Virtual Mentor. 2005;7(3):239-243. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2005.7.3.pfor1-0503. Policy Forum Oct 2003 Psychotropic Medications and Criminal Defendants Robert M. Wettstein, MD Virtual Mentor. 2003;5(10):455-459. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2003.5.10.pfor1-0310 Policy Forum Sep 2016 Shared Responsibility: Massachusetts Legislators, Physicians, and An Act Relative to Substance Use Treatment, Education, and Prevention Meghan Rudder, MD, Lulu Tsao, MD, and Helen E. Jack Massachusetts legislation limiting supply of first-time opioid prescriptions creates opportunity for interprofessional collaboration on drug policy. AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(9):950-959. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.9.pfor2-1609. Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Next page Next › Last page Last »
Original Research Jan 2022 Promoting Children’s Health Equity With Medical-Dental Integration Ana Zea, DDS, DrPH and Michelle Henshaw, DDS, MPH In 2015, a community health center in Boston, Massachusetts, implemented a model of interdisciplinary care in a nationwide pilot. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(1):E33-40. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.33.
Policy Forum Aug 2020 Advocacy and Action to End the Opioid Epidemic by the AMA Opioid Task Force Patrice A. Harris, MD, MA and Bobby Mukkamala, MD Six recommendations focus on specific actions to help reverse the nation’s opioid epidemic. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(8):E718-722. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.718.
Policy Forum Aug 2020 Ethical Imperatives to Overcome Stigma Against People With Substance Use Disorders VADM Jerome M. Adams, MD, MPH and Nora D. Volkow, MD Responding to opioid use disorder as a US public health crisis requires all clinicians to recognize addiction as a treatable disease. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(8):E702-708. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.702.
Policy Forum Aug 2020 How Structural Violence, Prohibition, and Stigma Have Paralyzed North American Responses to Opioid Overdose Mark Tyndall, MD, ScD and Zoë Dodd, MES Driven by toxic, unpredictable, unregulated supply, drug overdose deaths are rampant. Policies that support the war on drugs have to change to be helpful. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(8):E723-728. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.723.
Policy Forum Sep 2022 Roles of Environmental Services Workers’ Wages and Status in Patient Safety David Sine, DBioethics and Lloyd Duplechan This article offers a risk management standpoint on environmental services as a mission-critical function of any health care organization. AMA J Ethics. 2022;24(9):E876-882. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2022.876.
Policy Forum Apr 2023 How Should We Improve How Medical and Veterinary Students Learn About Human and Nonhuman Animals? Zoe Griffiths, MA and Jeff Sebo, PhD There are 5 things every clinician should know about why environmental threats matter to human and nonhuman animals’ health. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(4):E272-277. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.272.
Original Research May 2023 How Do Classroom-Based Interprofessional Education Interactions Influence Medical Students’ Clerkship Experiences? Mary Claire Potter, Kelly Horton, MAT, and Erica Chou, MD Classroom-based IPE has been shown to improve medical students’ understandings of competencies, but less is known about how they apply clinically. AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(5):E344-352. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.344.
Policy Forum Mar 2005 Confidentiality and Consent in Adolescent Substance Abuse: An Update Melissa Weddle, MD, MPH and Patricia K. Kokotailo, MD, MPH Virtual Mentor. 2005;7(3):239-243. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2005.7.3.pfor1-0503.
Policy Forum Oct 2003 Psychotropic Medications and Criminal Defendants Robert M. Wettstein, MD Virtual Mentor. 2003;5(10):455-459. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2003.5.10.pfor1-0310
Policy Forum Sep 2016 Shared Responsibility: Massachusetts Legislators, Physicians, and An Act Relative to Substance Use Treatment, Education, and Prevention Meghan Rudder, MD, Lulu Tsao, MD, and Helen E. Jack Massachusetts legislation limiting supply of first-time opioid prescriptions creates opportunity for interprofessional collaboration on drug policy. AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(9):950-959. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.9.pfor2-1609.