In this week’s edition of our Prioritizing Equity series, medical student organizers and policy advocates will join us to discuss increasing access to care in native communities through health policy and improving care within the Indian Health Services.
This week’s edition of the Prioritizing Equity series, we explore the work physicians are leading in health systems and beyond for public health, public safety, and gun violence prevention and the narratives and actions that need to evolve to ensure…
AMA has an interest in educating physicians about the unique health care and social needs of patients experiencing homelessness, the importance of holistic, cost-effective, evidence-based discharge planning, and the physicians’ roles therein, in addressing these needs.
In this week’s edition of the Prioritizing Equity series, we explore the Anchor Strategy a place-based approach to building community health and wealth by means of local hiring, investing, purchasing, and community engagement via the West Side United case study…
This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast about how critical medicine supply chains are identified and secured. The featured guest is Dr Amy Cadwallader, the director of regulatory…
This commentary on a case considers consequences of a so-called “zero-risk” paradigm now common in psychiatric inpatient decision-making. Iatrogenic harms of this approach must be balanced against promoting patients’ safety and well-being. This article suggests how to collaboratively assess risk…
Since the Joint Commission shifted its focus to suicide mitigation strategy implementation in behavioral health units in 2007, examining modern design trends in historical context is more clinically and ethically important than ever. This article considers architectural evolutions in how…
Patients often report experiencing boredom during inpatient psychiatry stays. Because patients’ vulnerabilities and conditions can be exacerbated when they feel bored, this article considers ethical dimensions of inpatient units’ designs that limit patients’ autonomy or access to activities or interactions…
This Guide to Statistics and Methods describes ethical considerations when a study population includes learner participants.
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…
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