Competitive behaviors can undermine a clerkship student’s residency goals and weaken team collaboration and communication.

Competitive behaviors can undermine a clerkship student’s residency goals and weaken team collaboration and communication.

The Bander Center for Medical Business Ethics’ goals and programs.

Identifies factors that contribute to the trend away from primary care practice among medical students and possible correctives to the trend.

Faculty gifts to individual residents or students can be perceived as favoritism and should be avoided, unless the same gift is made available to all.

Doctor and parents have conflicting views and wishes in designing treatment plan for an 18-month-old child, critically ill with a rare form of pediatric cancer.

A range of coursework in research ethics is available to medical students through the National Institutes of Health’s educational programs.

Physicians have an ethical responsibility to be functionally literate in health statistics and able to explain information such as a test’s positive predictive value to their patients.

Reasons for the shortage of primary care physicians in regions designated as Health Professional Shortage Areas and steps that medical schools and state and federal policymakers can take to alleviate the shortage.

Is our generation of physicians somehow “weaker” because we’d rather not spend our entire lives at the office? Physicians who trained and practiced under more grueling conditions wonder how we expect to be competent physicians if we don’t work at it?