This month, theme issue editor Ajay Major, a medical student at Albany Medical College, interviewed Dr. Pauline Chen about the problem of bullying in medical education.

Is there a legacy of student mistreatment in medical training?

Dr Olivia Kates talks about appropriate use of antibiotics during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Managing mistreatment of medical students and others in the learning environment.

Asymmetry in knowledge and power between (1) physicians and patients and (2) physician educators and their students creates a climate for possible abuse in both sets of relationships.

A mandatory faculty course on dyslexia is recommended to prevent bias against and misunderstanding of medical students who have this condition.

Physicians must balance competing ethical concerns when undocumented immigrants need health care for a communicable disease.

In a study of New York physicians' compliance with reporting of communicable diseases, surveyed physicians responded better to legal warnings than to requests that explained public health benefits.

Steps in diagnosing mycobacterial pulmonary tuberculosis and its management.

By not reporting abusive faculty behavior, a student places his or her grade over the larger good of promoting human dignity.