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Virtual Mentor. October 2001, Volume 3, Number 10. October 2001ContentsCommemorating Virtual Mentor's First 2 YearsThe online monthly journal Virtual Mentor was created by the AMA's Ethics Standards Group more than 2 years ago with the aim of contributing to positive changes in medicine's ethical and professional landscape. Since September 1999, VM's editors and contributors have published articles meant to catalyze interest, invite discussion, and broaden understanding among our readers about the challenges that confront the healing profession. We built it, and, to our delight, students and teachers have come in increasing numbers to the Virtual Mentor. This month's Virtual Mentor is part 1 of a 2-part commemorative issue celebrating the best of the Virtual Mentor. The editors have selected and solicited pieces that highlight 5 pressing challenges the profession faces in shaping medicine's future. Challenge: Educating for ProfessionalismRandom Acts of Kindness: Sustaining the Morale and Morals of Professionalism Lessons from 30 Years of Teaching Clinical Ethics Renewing a Prescription for a Relative Challenge: Fostering Trust in the Patient-Physician RelationshipA Physician by Any Other Name The Trend Toward Casual Dress and Address in the Medical Profession Mona, Is That You? Through the Student's Eyes: "But I Don't Eat Sweets" Challenge: Caring for Poor and Vulnerable PopulationsPatients at the Margins Physicians and the Obligation to Provide Charity Care "Please Help Me. My Baby Is Sick and Needs Medicine." Challenge: Reconnecting to Essential IdealsThrough the Student's Eyes: Keeping the Trust "You're Doing What?" Challenge: Strengthening the Social ContractAll WoMen are Created Equal The Code as Expert Witness Through the Physician's Eyes: AMA President's Inaugural Address, 2001 Go to Part 2 of the commemorative issue © 2001 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved. |