This article describes an educational initiative in which clinical ethics students, who were either in a bioethics master’s degree program or in the fourth year of medical school, spent two days observing health care in an urban jail. Students submitted…
As the field of hospital medicine celebrates its twenty-first anniversary, we believe it is time to expand its mission to play an even greater role in medical education. Given hospitalists’ proximity to students and clinical material, members of this growing…
A wave of medical student activism is shining a spotlight on medical educators’ sometimes maladroit handling of racial categories in teaching about health disparities. Coinciding with recent critiques, primarily by social scientists, regarding the imprecise and inappropriate use of race…
Medicine has a conceptual contribution to make to the immigration debate. Our nation has been unable to move forward with meaningful immigration reform because many citizens seem to assume that immigrants are in the United States to access benefits to…
In this paper, we examine the limits of informed consent with particular focus on ways in which various factors can overwhelm decision-making capacity. We introduce overwhelm as a phenomenon commonly experienced by patients in clinical settings and distinguish between emotional…
In this video edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Vivian Shaw and Susanna Park about the resurgence of anti-Asian racism and xenophobia during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In this video edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Patrick Smith about intersections of public health, civic good and spiritual well-being during this COVID-19 pandemic.
This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast on public health messaging lessons from the HIV epidemic with Dr Olivia S. Kates, a third-year fellow in infectious diseases at…
This activity explores clinician involvement in and resistance to the Third Reich and the Holocaust. This topic is explored through a medical school in the Warsaw ghetto, human subject research on starvation that was not conducted by Nazi clinicians, and…
In this video edition of Ethics Talk, journal editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, talks with Dr Ziad Obermeyer about the potential impact on mortality of cost-sharing practices of health insurers.
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