AMA Journal of Ethics

Trainees are expected to encounter clinical training environments and situations that utilize force methods.

LaShyra Nolen, the first Black woman to serve as Harvard Medical School’s student council president, joins us to discuss health equity, community engagement, and the future of health professional school curricular design.

Aligning merit-based approaches with holistic approaches and equitable candidate evaluation can improve admissions processes, support learners, and improve patient care.

The Flexner Report marginalized schools that produce more than their fair share of physicians confronting inequities in US responses to COVID-19.

Failure to robustly integrate health equity content into health professions curricula leads to student frustration and missed opportunities.

The opioid crisis, maternal death, and COVID-19 underscore trust as foundational to public health and call for redefinition of what it means to be a US clinician.

Adapting content in response to new science is common, but educators can struggle to offer current questions that matter to students.

This article offers a personal viewpoint on intersections among race, class, and culture and key roles each plays in motivating equitable, inclusive admissions.

Immorally acquired information, from Nazi experimentation or other sources, infects the body of scientific and biomedical knowledge.

One health professions school views the Holocaust as fundamental content knowledge in modern health care ethics, but teaching it is difficult.