AMA Journal of Ethics^®

Humor can help motivate positive interactions amidst fast-paced clinical encounters but can alienate colleagues when weaponized to promote assumed superiority of an individual or group.

Because it affects collegiality, training, and patient care, callous humor should not be tolerated, especially when directed at patients.

A self-portrait in bold colors depicts an experience of imposterhood in medicine.

Guidelines are needed to help ensure that trainee, institutional, and faculty engagement in global health is ethically appropriate and mutually beneficial for all involved.

With properly designed programs, universities can offer transformative benefits to patients, educators, and students.

In the past decade, more students than ever entered medical school with the desire, if not the expectation, of participating in meaningful global health experiences.

Changes made in 2017 to the World Medical Association Physician’s Pledge strive to keep in step with geopolitical trends by addressing patient autonomy and collegiality.

Global health outreach programs can risk benefitting students from resource-rich areas of the world more than the patients in resource-poor areas of the world. This month’s episode of Ethics Talk explores an alternative to academic health center-based health outreach programs.

Exploitation can be exacerbated when health professions students’ educational goals are overemphasized relative to patients’ and communities’ needs.

If not planned and executed thoughtfully, “immersions” might not provide much benefit to communities they seek to serve.