Global health outreach programs can risk benefitting students from resource-rich areas of the world more than the patients in resource-poor areas of the world. This month’s episode of Ethics Talk explores an alternative to academic health center-based health outreach programs.

Jorie Braunold joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: "How Pseudoscience Generated US Material and Device Regulations"

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

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

Physician's view of what society expects of physicians and what physicians expect from society. Society demands accessible, quality care. Physicians want balanced lives.

Pharmacologic interventions might help physicians overcome cognitive deficits resulting from loss of sleep while on call or help them retain more details about the patients under their care.

In the past decade, more students than ever entered medical school with the desire, if not the expectation, of participating in meaningful global health experiences.

Exploitation can be exacerbated when health professions students’ educational goals are overemphasized relative to patients’ and communities’ needs.

The author believes the AMA's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs should collaborate with academic physicians to create clear professional standards for the field of medicine.

The medical student believes that the art of doctoring is learned continuously over time and cannot be assessed in a proposed medical school examination.