There are fewer Black men in US medical schools today than in 1970. This and other kinds of ongoing inequity express the systemic racism Black Americans face in health care. Increasing Black physician representation in medicine is key to motivating…
In 2003, the Association of American Medical Colleges reframed the concept underrepresented minorities as underrepresented in medicine (URiM), which defines representation in medicine relative to representation in the US population. Schools are permitted to construct URiM definitions, suggesting the importance…
This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast about how “human-centered” design can help remove barriers to care and forge solidarity between patients and clinicians, and how soundscape ecology…
This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast about industrial hygiene, biocontainment, and how to build more sustainable health systems. The featured guest is Mark Rukavina, a program director…
This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast about industrial hygiene, biocontainment, and how to build more sustainable health systems. The featured guest is Shawn G. Gibbs, PhD, MBA,…
Homelessness remains a pervasive, long-standing problem in the United States and is poised to increase as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Individuals experiencing homelessness bear a higher burden of complex medical and mental health illnesses and often struggle to…
Street medicine clinicians and law enforcement officers share a common challenge. Both are frontline professionals positioned at the interface of large, inflexible systems and those experiencing street homelessness. Both professions face difficult challenges as they attempt to work with a…
The COVID-19 pandemic underscores long-standing challenges to the health of persons experiencing homelessness. This case commentary considers primary care clinicians’ response to a patient who declines COVID-19 testing and isolation. This article also considers other outbreaks in the United States…
This article considers strategies for illuminating health systems’ structural violence toward people experiencing homelessness and for resisting incursion of moral injury to health professional learners. This article also canvasses the nature and scope of educators’ obligations to teach in patient-focused…
Experiencing homelessness is traumatizing and can exacerbate mental illnesses and substance use disorders. When persons experiencing homelessness are a danger to themselves or others, petitioning for involuntary placement is clinically, ethically, and legally indicated. The process of involuntary commitment is…
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