A discussion of the ethics of performing anti-aging interventions for older patients.

Some question whether plastic surgeons bear responsibility for promoting suspect norms of beauty, given that certain types of cosmetic enhancements reinforce common conceptions of normality that are harmful to society.

Reflective learning during and after challenging experiences can be used to foster medical students’ moral development and professional identity formation.

Medical institutions and individual students each have responsibilities when preparing for global health electives.

Applying a virtue ethics approach—and especially the virtues of courage and compassion—enables clinicians to care appropriately for “difficult” patients.

Much premed education encourages acquiring competence in basic science and demonstrating (rather than developing) the characteristics of a good physician.

Longitudinal integrated clerkships intend to correct documented erosion in medical student compassion and patient-centeredness.

The use of advertisements for cosmetic surgery has fluctuated throughout the twentieth century.

Role-modeling can shape and reinforce the personal qualities of exemplary plastic surgeons in trainees.

The medical student's anatomy-lab cadaver is not exactly a patient, but neither is the cadaver merely an object.