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Educational opportunities about ethics and professionalism in the clinical environment: surveys of 3rd year medical students to understand and address elements of the hidden curriculum
Medical students’ concerns during clinical clerkships may not always be addressed with mentors who work under significant time constraints. This...
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Practicing Neighbor Love: Empathy, Religion, and Clinical Ethics
The role of religion in clinical ethics consultations is contested. The religion of the ethics consultant can be an important part of the...
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What Do Students Perceive as Ethical Problems? A Comparative Study of Dutch and Indonesian Medical Students in Clinical Training
Previous studies show that medical students in clinical training face ethical problems that are not often discussed in the literature. In order to...
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Friendship as a framework for resolving dilemmas in clinical ethics
Healthcare professionals often need to make clinical decisions that carry profound ethical implications. As such, they require a tool that will make...
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COVID-19 underscores the important role of Clinical Ethics Committees in Africa
BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic has magnified pre-existing challenges in healthcare in Africa. Long-standing health inequities, embedded in the...
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Equality, diversity, and inclusion in oncology clinical trials: an audit of essential documents and data collection against INCLUDE under-served groups in a UK academic trial setting
BackgroundClinical trials should be as inclusive as possible to facilitate equitable access to research and better reflect the population towards...
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Clinical Ethics Consultations and the Necessity of NOT Meeting Expectations: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Clinical ethics consultants (CECs) work in complex environments ripe with multiple types of expectations. Significantly, some are due to the...
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How does patient-centered hospital culture affect clinical physicians’ medical professional attitudes and behaviours in Chinese public hospitals: a cross-sectional study?
BackgroundAn increasing number of studies on physicians’ professionalism have been done since the 2002 publication of Medical Professionalism in the...
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Revisiting respect for persons: conceptual analysis and implications for clinical practice
In everyday conversations, professional codes, policy debates, and academic literature, the concept of respect is referred to frequently. Bioethical...
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Ethical Relativism and Circumstances of Social and Cultural Contingencies on Informed Consent in the Conduct of Research: Clinical Trials in Nigeria
There have been debates across the globe for a social and culturally sensitive ethics to meditate a catalyst of template for informed consent (IC) in...
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Brain Death/Death by Neurological Criteria in the United States: What Every Clinical Ethics Consultant Should Know
Brain death/death by neurological criteria (BD/DNC) has been recognized as the medical equivalent of death by cardiopulmonary criteria since the late...
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Empathy in patient care: from ‘Clinical Empathy’ to ‘Empathic Concern’
As empathy gains importance within academia, we propose this review as an attempt to bring clarity upon the diverse and widely debated definitions...
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Ethical challenges and dilemmas in the rationing of health commodities and provision of high-risk clinical services during COVID-19 pandemic in Ethiopia: the experiences of frontline health workers
BackgroundEthical reasoning and sensitivity are always important in public health, but it is especially important in the sensitive and complex area...
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AI-driven decision support systems and epistemic reliance: a qualitative study on obstetricians’ and midwives’ perspectives on integrating AI-driven CTG into clinical decision making
BackgroundGiven that AI-driven decision support systems (AI-DSS) are intended to assist in medical decision making, it is essential that clinicians...
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Clinical Ethics Committees in Africa: lost in the shadow of RECs/IRBs?
BackgroundClinical Ethics Committees (CECs) are well established at healthcare institutions in resource-rich countries. However, there is limited...
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Clinical Ethics Consultation During the First COVID-19 Pandemic Surge at an Academic Medical Center: A Mixed Methods Analysis
While a significant literature has appeared discussing theoretical ethical concerns regarding COVID-19, particularly regarding resource...
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Clinical Interventions—Anthropological Approach to Advance Heart Failure and Ethical Challenges in Infective Endocarditis
This chapter delves into two major ethical dilemmas in the field of cardiovascular medicine. Firstly, it discusses the ethical challenges in...
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Map** out epistemic justice in the clinical space: using narrative techniques to affirm patients as knowers
Epistemic injustice sits at the intersection of ethics, epistemology, and social justice. Generally, this philosophical term describes when a person...
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The Ethical Principles that Guide Artificial Intelligence Utilization in Clinical Health Care
Artificial IntelligenceArtificial Intelligence (AI) is regarded as a disruptive technologyDisruptive technology that increasingly affects and...
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The ethics of machine learning-based clinical decision support: an analysis through the lens of professionalisation theory
BackgroundMachine learning-based clinical decision support systems (ML_CDSS) are increasingly employed in various sectors of health care aiming at...