AMA Journal of Ethics^®

A mandatory faculty course on dyslexia is recommended to prevent bias against and misunderstanding of medical students who have this condition.

Role-playing exercises, which help participants understand the experience of being harassed, can be helpful in addressing mistreatment in medical education.

The eradication of hazing has not diminished the socialization, camaraderie, or commitment of new recruits. The physical, emotional, and mental demands of basic training suffice to produce the outcomes previously ascribed to hazing.

It is the clerkship director's role to advise students labeled gunners when their behavior becomes a problem, but changes in the larger system might help to prevent this behavior from occurring in the first place.

The Association of American Medical Colleges has added and refined questions about mistreatment in medical education to its Graduation Questionnaire, increasing the amount and specificity of information about what kinds of incidents occur and how students feel about them.

By not reporting abusive faculty behavior, a student places his or her grade over the larger good of promoting human dignity.

Pimping and the socratic method are often perceived as interchangeable, but they are not.

Slavishly following traditional educational methods, on the grounds that "it worked when I was at medical school and didn’t do me any harm," demonstrates a degree of moral vacuity that demeans the medical profession.

The AMA Code of Medical Ethics' opinion on sexual harassment of medical students and residents.

Any use of nonanonymous student surveys will compromise the ability of schools to obtain valid data on mistreatment of students and attendant efforts to reduce the problem.