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

The new model of global health in medicine is a co-creative one in which health priority setting and problem solving are accomplished collaboratively among the visiting physician team, the communities of patients they serve, and local professional caregivers.

Physicians must stay up-to-date on changes in clinical treatment guidelines.

Physicians must stay up-to-date on changes in clinical treatment guidelines.

Physicians need to help surrogate decision makers to make treatment and end-of-life decisions for those with severe neurological damage by proving a realistic prognosis and maintain strong lines of communication.

This article gives a brief overview of two legal cases where students were denied admission to the University of Michigan.

The president of the Association of American Medical Colleges gives reasons why medical schools need to continue affirmative action admissions policies.

Recent increases in adolescent mortality from overdose have outpaced increases in mortality in members of the general population.

Some US localities are trying interventions modeled on international approaches to decriminalization.

An ethical case explores whether a medical student doing a radiology rotation has a duty to inform a patient whose chest x-ray shows bony metastases that was not caught by the original radiologist or mentioned in the ED chart.