Approval of requests for exceptions to duty-hour restrictions from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) may require increasing the complement of midlevel practitioners, implementing innovative resident scheduling, and using social learning techniques to increase efficiency.
Approval of requests for exceptions to duty-hour restrictions from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) may require increasing the complement of midlevel practitioners, implementing innovative resident scheduling, and using social learning techniques to increase efficiency.
This month, AMA Journal of Ethics theme editor Jacquelyn Nestor, a fifth-year MD/PhD student at Hofstra-Northwell School of Medicine, interviewed Allen Buchanan, PhD, about how we can safely explore cutting-edge biomedical enhancements.
Medical specialty boards improve the quality and safety of health care, but they can overreach, and their board members express disapproval of board action by petition and through legal action.
AMA J Ethics. 2015;17(3):193-198. doi:
10.1001/journalofethics.2015.17.3.spec1-1503.
The need for improved health care transition (HCT) for youth with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can be met with training for health care professionals, financial counseling for parents of children with ASD, and increased vocational training and opportunities for youth with ASD.
AMA J Ethics. 2015;17(4):342-347. doi:
10.1001/journalofethics.2015.17.4.pfor1-1504.
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.
AMA J Ethics. 2015;17(4):318-322. doi:
10.1001/journalofethics.2015.17.4.medu1-1504.
Julian Willoughby, MD, MPH, Vu Nguyen, MD, MBA, and William L. Bockenek, MD
The ACGME milestones initiative promises to improve the process of assessing medical resident competency by providing, throughout the course of residency training, systematic, comprehensive, and specialty-specific evaluation of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Education’s six clinical competencies.
AMA J Ethics. 2015;17(6):515-520. doi:
10.1001/journalofethics.2015.17.6.medu1-1506.
The experience of an English professor dying of ovarian cancer in Margaret Edson’s play Wit shows that both literary and medical discourse obfuscate and objectify rather than promote communication of “simple human truths” that dignify life and death.
AMA J Ethics. 2015;17(9):858-864. doi:
10.1001/journalofethics.2015.17.9.imhl1-1509.
This month theme issue editor, Trahern Jones, a fourth-year student at Mayo Medical School in Rochester, Minnesota, spoke with Dr. Edward Laskowski about the use of performance-enhancing drugs and substances among athletes today.