Teaching physicians cultural competency concepts and skills that will help them overcome the challenge of caring for patients from many cultures and lead to improved patient-physician communication.
Academic and community physicians must do more to limit unreasonable work shift lengths in medical education and training in order to protect the health and safety of patients and doctors.
A recent journal article calls for a public policy that would require physician-researchers to demonstrate the absence of undue influence or coercion on informed consent.
An ethical case explores whether an attending physician should allow a medical student to place a central line on a Medicaid patient even though the student has failed the procedure two previous times.
The medical student believes that the art of doctoring is learned continuously over time and cannot be assessed in a proposed medical school examination.
When medical students are involved in patient care as part of their education and training, patients must be informed of their status and provide written or oral consent to be treated.