Professionalism

Patient Safety Highlights 2024 Package

The Patient Safety Highlights 2024 package consists of 13 individual modules that contain recordings of the corresponding session presented at ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2023. Upon successful completion of all the modules, the learner would earn 11.75 ABA-approved patient safety credits. The patient…

Infection Control Rounding in Ambulatory Surgery Centers

It is Monday morning, and you’ve been invited to participate in the infection prevention rounds in your ambulatory surgical center. This activity will take you on rounds through the OR, sterile processing area, pharmacy, and a construction site to identify…

AI in Medicine: Cutting-Edge or Legal Landmine

The emergence of AI in healthcare, initially signaled in the 1970s with innovative AI diagnostic tools, has gained renewed momentum due to recent breakthroughs in generative AI. This revitalization has brought to the forefront both the immense possibilities and the…

A-24: Marginalized Perspectives on Restorative Justice in Medicine

This session offers an overview of the Canadian Medical Association’s truth and reconciliation initiative, followed by perspectives from minoritized physician group leaders on how lessons learned from the experiences of Canadian physicians might be applied in the United States.

Health By Law: Embryonic Personhood in Alabama

This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast about the Alabama Supreme Court decision in LePage v Center for Reproductive Medicine and the legal, clinical, and ethical implications of…

Ethics Talk: Whose Job Is Antimicrobial Stewardship?

This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast about the key roles of infectious disease pharmacists in antimicrobial stewardship. The featured guests are Drs Lynne Fehrenbacher, a professor in…

Why Assuring the Quality of Antimicrobials Is a Global Imperative

Poor-quality antimicrobial medicines continue to proliferate across supply chains, threatening patients’ health and safety, especially in low- and middle-income regions. This article discusses consequences and risks of antimicrobial resistance and other ways in which antimicrobial medicines can be of poor…

How to Mitigate Community Harms of Antibacterial Resistance With Patient-Centered Care

Overprescription of antibiotics in cases in which bacterial infection is clinically uncertain contributes to increased prevalence of multidrug-resistant bacteria. Ethically, merits and drawbacks of stricter prescription practice oversight should be weighed against risks of untreatable bacterial infections to patients and…