Teaching and learning patient advocacy in academic health centers requires critical engagement with social, political, historical, and cultural conceptions of racial difference.

This article highlights opinions in the Code that exemplify obligations to promote social justice and equity in health professions pedagogy and training.

This article interrogates a common model of health professions education and suggests how to augment it with critical rigor.

Dr Helen Stanton Chapple joins Ethics Talk to talk about teaching health professions students and trainees about acknowledging and realizing dying in a healthy way.

Geriatric psychiatry offers stable career prospects and opportunities to express humanitarian impulses by working closely with elders.

Dr Rajesh R. Tampi joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Drs Aarti Gupta and Iqbal Ahmed: “Why Does the US Overly Rely on International Medical Graduates in Its Geriatric Psychiatric Workforce?”

Dr Steven Starks joins Ethics Talk to discuss the shortage of geriatric psychiatrists and how cross-specialty training can prepare clinicians of all specialties to care for geriatric patients.

Costs partly determine organizational robotics, but questions remain about whether and to what extent they should influence care decisions. 

More frequent use of robotic-assisted surgeries means we need to ask more questions about care quality and equity, informed consent, and conflicts of interest.

Several factors can persuade both surgeons and patients to choose robotic surgery over open surgery or conventional laparoscopy.