Promoting Reflection on Ethics, Humanities and Professionalism in Healthcare

As an educator in the preclinical or clinical curriculum, you can use many resources to stimulate a robust conversation about professionalism, ethics, and humanism in medical practice and healthcare.

In addition to Harmony, "a literary journal of essays, short stories, poetry, visual art, and photography is a publication of Arizona’s College of Medicine Program in Medical Humanities," below are several resources you might find useful in promoting medical students' or residents' reflections on these important issues.

AMA

• Code of Medical Ethics
• Journal of Ethics

AAMC

• Teamwork in healthcare delivery
• Teaching new doctors to navigate ethical issues
• iCollaborative (non-peer reviewed, shared curricula) - Health Disparities

Center for Medicine after the Holocaust

• CMATH - Main page
• Resources, including lecture series, materials

Hastings Center in New York

• Health Care
• Aging, chronic conditions and end of life care
• Science and the self
• Children and families

Institute of Medical Ethics

• Justice and public health
• Towards the end of life
• Mental Health

NEJM

• Beecher's 1966 article on research involving human subjects