Practical Guide to Ethics in Surgical Education Research
This Guide to Statistics and Methods describes ethical considerations when a study population includes learner participants.
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Essentials of Informed Consent to Psychedelic Medicine
Importance Interest in administering psychedelic agents as mental health treatment is growing rapidly. As drugmakers invest in developing psychedelic medicines for several psychiatric indications, lawmakers are enacting legal reforms to speed access globally, and health agencies are preparing to approve these…
Why Climate Literacy Is Health Literacy
Health problems of global warming are daunting in severity and magnitude and will only get worse. Yet literacy about these problems is poor and plans to alleviate them are too early in development to be responsive to current levels of…
Top 5 Things Health Professions Students Should Know About Ecology and Waste Management
The environments in which we live affect individual and community risk for disease transmission and illness severity. Communities’ and neighborhoods’ waste stream management designs and health care organizations’ spatial and structural architecture also influence individuals’ and communities’ pathogenic vulnerabilities and…
Five Things Clinicians Need to Know About Zoonotic Viral Spillover and Spillback
Since the 1990s, multiple infectious diseases have “spilled over” from nonhuman animals to infect humans and cause significant global morbidity and mortality. Despite efforts to detect and respond to such threats, surveillance and mitigation efforts have been criticized as ineffective….
How One Health Instrumentalizes Nonhuman Animals
This article interrogates anthropocentrism and nonhuman animal instrumentalization in One Health (OH). It argues that OH’s approach to human health and zoonosis focuses too narrowly on furthering certain human interests at the expense of nonhuman animals, which is not sustainable,…
Why Should Physicians Care About What Law Says About Turfing and Dumping Patients?
When a physician refers a patient for a nonclinical reason, that patient has been “turfed.” There are numerous reasons why turfing is clinically, legally, and ethically problematic; a main one is that the practice is physician centered and does not…
What Should Students and Trainees Be Taught About Turfing and Where Patients Belong?
Turfing is a colloquialism that refers to what clinicians do to patients whose needs do not fit neatly and tidily into typical clinical placement protocols, especially during inpatient admissions from a hospital’s emergency department. This term and this practice are…
Cheating the Rules of Admission With “Observation”
When physicians admit patients to a hospital, their decisions about where—and to whose professional stewardship and services—those patients belong are influenced by federal policies, of which many clinicians are not aware. The distinction between observation and admission has clinical and…
Ethics Talk: Participatory Design in the Spaces and Structures of Mental Health Caregiving
This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast about how the design of mental health facilities contributes to safety and to patient healing. The featured guest is Stefan Lundin,…
