A retired surgeon explains how keeping a journal helped him deal with difficult professional situations and led him to stronger relationships with his patients.
Two physicians assert that pharmaceutical companies' sponsorship of clinical conferences for residents and physicians represent a conflict of interest.
Two physicians assert that pharmaceutical companies' sponsorship of clinical conferences for residents and physicians represent a conflict of interest.
Murray Kopelow, chief executive of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education, discusses his organization's the new draft standards for commercial support of continuing medical education.
The use of simulated patients in medical education helps students to develop communication skills needed to interact with patients when difficult circumstances arise.
Professional behavior and values are often learned outside the classroom, when physicians act as role models for students in patient-physician relationships.
Jeffrey T. Kullgren, MPH and Jerome Lowenstein, MD
A physician argues that the question is not whether we can teach professionalism but rather whether we will teach professionalism, given all of modern medicine's economic and other constraints.
