The military medical ethics curriculum is outlined by the director of medical ethics programs at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.

Physicians should recognize the influence that small gift-giving has on prescribing patterns and consequently interactions between pharmaceutical representatives and medical students and residents should be limited.

A growing number of states is enacting laws to protect the right of health care workers to conscientiously object to perform certain services that are morally opposed to.

Two researchers argue in favor of training physicians to better understand and practice the tenets of medical professionalism.

Stanford University Medical School established a positive partnership with a pharmaceutical company to offer an industry-sponsored resident elective course in a way that minimizes conflict of interest and has been accepted by the ACGME.

A physician discusses the trend toward medical students selecting medical specialties based on the lifestyle they provide.

A physician argues that pharmaceutical industry support for residency programs creates a conflict of interest and compromises the educational integrity of the programs.

Professional, practical, clinical and cultural obligations should guide decision making when a funding agency restricts the types of counseling and advice it allows medical professionals to dispense.

Intellectual property laws promulgated by the World Trade Organization affect developing nations' access to life-saving medications.

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