Dr Helen Stanton Chapple joins Ethics Talk to talk about teaching health professions students and trainees about acknowledging and realizing dying in a healthy way.

Virtual Mentor issue editor Sophia Cedola, a medical student at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, interviewed Dr. Craig Blinderman about talking with patients who are terminally ill, asking him whether there are some key “do’s” and “don’ts” for having end-of-life conversations with patients and their families.

As machine learning becomes increasingly common in health care, these systems’ data, algorithms, and recommendations raise critical justice questions.

The president of the Association of American Medical Colleges gives reasons why medical schools need to continue affirmative action admissions policies.

This article gives a brief overview of two legal cases where students were denied admission to the University of Michigan.

Defenses of affirmative action rely on faulty assumptions about the educational value of student-body diversity and the best ways to address educational inequities.

Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin continues the debate about affirmative action in higher education. What constitutes adequate representation of a given group, and should those groups be based on race or class?

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

Failure to robustly integrate health equity content into health professions curricula leads to student frustration and missed opportunities.