Ari Ne’eman joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, When Disability is Defined by Behavior, Outcome Measures Should Not promote “Passing”.

Physicians should provide women considering abortion after Down syndrome screening with unbiased information and not attempt to influence their decision.

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

Analysis of three studies that say medical students and residents are more comfortable communicating and treating patients who differ from them after international electives and cultural sensitivity training.

A medical student, resident and long-time physician volunteer tell medical students how to make the most of international elective experiences.

A medical student, resident and long-time physician volunteer tell medical students how to make the most of international elective experiences.

A medical student, resident and long-time physician volunteer tell medical students how to make the most of international elective experiences.

The harms of communicating autism risk can be avoided by helping families to understand risk and to distinguish between poor and good sources of scientific information, which should take families’ interests into account.

Evaluation of an autism curriculum for pediatric residents yielded significant short-term gains in residents’ objective and self-assessed knowledge of autism spectrum disorder diagnosis and treatment.

Because many complementary and alternative medicine therapies for autism are based on misguided notions of its cause and lack support from scientifically sound studies, physicians should steer parents away from these practices and toward safe, effective, and evidence-based interventions.