Bioethics
How to Assess the Impact of Medical Ethics Education
Here, I consider ways to assess the impact of ethics education on real-world decision making.
How to Assess the Impact of Medical Ethics Education
Author
Leah Pierson
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Doctor-Patient Relationship
Medical School Curricula Should Reflect Disease Burden
Medical students spend a lot of time learning about conditions they will likely never treat. This has negative implications for patient care.
Medical School Curricula Should Reflect Disease Burden
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Bioethics
Ethics Education in U.S. Medical Schools’ Curricula
An overview of how ethics courses became a key component of medical education and what we know about their results.
Ethics Education in U.S. Medical Schools’ Curricula
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Health Care Finance
The AMA Can Help Fix the Health Care Shortages it Helped Create
Now is a pivotal time for the American Medical Association to reconsider its aggressive scope of practice lobbying.
The AMA Can Help Fix the Health Care Shortages it Helped Create
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Empirical
Picking Research Projects That Matter
We should strive to create an academic culture where researchers consider a project’s likely impact on the world when deciding what to work on.
Picking Research Projects That Matter
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Bioethics
We Need to Evaluate Ethics Curricula
Simply providing ethics training to health professions students does not ensure that they will make more ethical decisions in practice.
We Need to Evaluate Ethics Curricula
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Empirical
Medical Schools Need to Do More to Reduce Students’ Debt
Today, the average medical student graduates with more than $215,000 of debt from medical school alone.
Medical Schools Need to Do More to Reduce Students’ Debt
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Bioethics
Becoming a Bioethicist is Expensive. That’s a Problem.
The financial barriers associated with becoming a bioethicist make the field less accessible, undermining the quality and relevance of bioethics research.
Becoming a Bioethicist is Expensive. That’s a Problem.
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Empirical
The NIH Has the Opportunity to Address Research Funding Disparities
As the NIH prepares for a massive influx of funding, it must follow through on its commitment to address health research funding disparities.
The NIH Has the Opportunity to Address Research Funding Disparities
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Doctor-Patient Relationship
Disclosing Pain: The Case for Greater Transparency
Clinicians across medical settings commonly euphemize or understate pain, which has concerning implications for patient trust, consent, and care quality.
Disclosing Pain: The Case for Greater Transparency
