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

Developing drugs for profit is challenged in Parasites!, a patient education comic that highlights the need for unprofitable drugs for tropical diseases.

An exploration of what could have been done to help the immigrant family of a severely ill child with his care.

Physicians in training need more exposure to palliative care scenarios, skills, and models than most currently receive.

The AMA Code of Medical Ethics' opinions on seriously ill newborns and do-not-resuscitate orders.