January

• Publication Highlight: We need role fidelity and integrity to avoid moral compartmentalization, not sphere or role moralities

• Bioethics Topic of the Month: Shared Decision Making for ECMO Discontinuation

February

• Publication Highlight: Epidemics and the Healthcare Professional's Duty to Care

• Bioethics Topic of the Month: Narrative Ethics

March

• Ethics in Healthcare Conference, May 30, 2025

April

• Publication Highlight: Ethical and professional issues encountered by fourth-year medical students during a critical care clerkship before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

• Bioethics Topic of the Month: Miracle language in the clinical setting

May

• Publication Highlight: The aging surgeon: Planning for retirement across all stages of one's surgical career

• Bioethics Topic of the Month: Voluntary stopping eating and drinking

June

• Publication Highlight: Persuasion in healthcare needs virtue, narrative and relational concept of autonomy
• Bioethics Topic of the Month: Access to palliative care and ethno-cultural diversity

July

• Publication Highlight: To procure organs for transplantation, normothermic regional perfusion and brain death dislocate circulation and brain from an integrated concept of embodied persons
• Bioethics Topic of the Month: Approaching behavioral disorders from a social determinants lens

August

• Publication Highlight: "I didn't know what I didn't know." Assessment of adolescent oncology patient engagement in decision-making

September

• Webinar Highlight: AI's Impact on Healthcare

October

November

• Bioethics Topic of the Month: Shared Decision Making and the Ethics of Persuasion

December

• Bioethics Topic of the Month: Unique Challenges at the End of Life for Interactive Pediatric Patients

January

• Ethics in Healthcare Conference, May 19, 2023
• Publication Highlight: Religious character of secular arguments supporting euthanasia and what it implies for conscientious practice in medicine

February

• Ethics in Healthcare Conference, May 19, 2023
• Publication Highlight: ‘A valued voice’: A qualitative analysis of parental decision-making preferences in emergent paediatric surgery
• Bioethics Topic of the Month: Ethical Challenges with ECPR
• Humanities Corner: poem by Samantha Parks, M4

March

• Ethics in Healthcare Conference, May 19, 2023
• Publication Highlight: “Reading the room:” A qualitative analysis of pediatric surgeons’ approach to clinical counseling
• Bioethics Topic of the Month: Challenging Patient-Provider Relationships
• Humanities Corner: Reflection by Faizan Khawaja, M4

April

• Ethics in Healthcare Conference, May 19, 2023
• Publication Highlight: Listening Lessons by Brittany Bettendorf, MD, MFA
• Humanities Corner: Drawing and Reflection by Nicole Hehr, M3 

May

•  Ethics in Healthcare Conference, May 19, 2023
• Humanities Corner: Poem by Mariam Mansour, M4

June

• 2023 Ethics in Healthcare Conference
• Publication Highlight: Practical Wisdom in Medicine
• Bioethics Topic of the Month: Physician-Assisted Suicide
• Humanities Corner: Essay by John Nelson, M3

July

• Publication Highlight: Gaudeamus Igitur at 40—A Tribute and Assessment
• Humanities Corner: Essay by Melissa Sheber, M3

August

• Bioethics Educational Opportunities at CCOM
• Humanities Corner: Haiku and Reflection by Benjamin Linden, M4

 September

• Publication Highlight: Evaluation of a novel question prompt list in pediatric surgical oncology 
• Humanities Corner: Haiku and Reflection by Jacqueline Smart, M4
• Literary Highlight from CCOM Faculty Member: Gold and Iron 

 October 

• Humanities Corner: Written Reflection by Jessie Chu, M4

 November

• Publication Highlight: Moral distress, conscientious practice, and the endurance of ethics in health care through times of crisis and calm
• Bioethics Topic of the Month: How do we show compassion?
• Humanities Corner: Creative Work by Jacob Schroeder, M4

 December 

• Publication Highlight: Practical wisdom in medicine through the eyes of medical students and physicians
• Bioethics Topic of the Month: Assessing and supporting surrogate decision makers
• Humanities Corner: Illustration and reflection by Anna Clemens, M4

January

• Publication Highlight: Medical Education and the Ethics of Self-Care

February

• Topic of the Month: Ethics in Intensive Care

March

• Program Highlight: Physician influence in shared decision making podcast
• Publication Highlight: A careful balance of the benefits and burdens of pediatric ECMO
• Topic of the Month: Goals of care communication

April

• Topic of the Month: Ethics in Decision Making for Peri-Viable Delivery

May

• Program Highlight: Should we practice what we preach: Medical school and the ethics of self-care
• Publication Highlight: To inform, recommend, and sometimes persuade: The ethics of physician influence in shared decision making
• Topic of the Month: The ethics of alleviating suffering while avoiding harm with opioid use at the end of life

June

• Publication Highlight: Attending to the Existential Experience in Oncology
• Topic of the Month: Professional Boundaries in Healthcare

July

August

• Humanities Corner (New): watercolor by Sarah Stueve, M4

September

• Program Highlight: Ethics Summer Research Fellowship for CCOM Medical Students
• Publication Highlight: "Reading the room": A qualitative analysis of pediatric surgeons' approach to clinical counseling

October

• Topic of the Month: Calibrating our Responses to Medical Futility
• Humanities Corner: Haiku by Samantha Metzger, M4

November

• Ethics in Healthcare Conference, May 19, 2023
• Topic of the Month: "Potentially Nonbeneficial" CPR
• Humanities Corner: poem by CCOM medical student (anonymous)

December

• Ethics in Healthcare Conference, May 19, 2023
• Topic of the Month: Decision-Making in Pediatric Patients
• Humanities Corner: painting and written reflection by Erin Sullivan, M4

January

• Publication Highlight: Communication About Medical Errors
• Bioethics Topic of the Month: Ethical Issues Surrounding Autonomy - Limiting Diagnoses such as Anorexia Nervosa

February

• Bioethics Topic of the Month: Trisomy 18

March

• Publication Highlight: Discrepancies in Decision Making Preferences Between Patients and Surgeons in Pediatric Surgery
• Bioethics Topic of the Month: Moral Community

April

• Bioethics Topic of the Month: The Partial Code
• Bioethics Resource of the Month: Case Studies and Educational Resources
• Literary Highlight from a CCOM Faculty Member: The Great Dimming of 2020

May

• Bioethics Topic of the Month: Goals of Care Discussions

June

• Publication Highlight: Why Truthfulness is the First of the Virtues
• Bioethics Topic of the Month: The Unrepresented Patient

July

• Bioethics Topic of the Month: Brain Death

August

• Bioethics Resource of the Month: The Hastings Center Bioethics Timeline
• Bioethics Educational Opportunities at CCOM

September

October

November

December

• Bioethics Topic of the Month: Goals of Care Discussions

January

• Publication Highlight: A Brief Video Intervention to Improve Medical Students' Attitudes Toward Prisoners
• Bioethics Educational Topic of the Month: To Allow Not To Be?

February

• Publication Highlight: Becoming a Role Model
• Bioethics Educational Topic of the Month: Palliative Sedation in End of Life Care

March

• Publication Highlight: Clarifying Core Content of Goals of Care Discussions
• Bioethics Educational Topic of the Month: Social Media and the Patient-Provider Relationship

April

• Bioethics Resource: COVID-19 Ethics Resources

May

• Publication Highlight: Practicing the Ethics We Teach in International Medical Education
• Ethics Resource: COVID-19 Ethics Resources

June

July

August

• Bioethics Educational Opportunities at CCOM

September

• Publication Highlight: Shared Decision Making in Surgery: A Scoping Review of Patient and Surgeon Preferences

October

• Bioethics Educational Topic of the Month: Recognizing and Responding to Existential Distress/Suffering in the Clinical Setting

November

• Bioethics Educational Topic of the Month: Understanding the Role of Chronic Stress in People of Color and Need for Justice in Research

December

• Bioethics Topic of the Month: The Ethics of Caregivers - Controlled Analgesia at the End-of-Life

January

• Publication Highlight: In Support of Goals-of-Care Discussions in Shared Decision Making - An Extended Response to the Rejoinders

February

• Publication Highlight: Reconceptualizing Harms and Benefits in the Genomic Age

March

• Bioethics Resource: International Compilation of Human Research Standards

April

May

• Publication Highlight: Prospect Theory Concepts Applied to family Members of Nursing Home Residents with Cancer: A Good Ending is a Gain

June

July

August

• Publication Highlight: Navigating the Choppy Waters Between Public Safety and Humane Care of the Prisoner-Patient: The Role of the Ethics Consultant

September

• In Memoriam: Richard M. Caplan, MD.  July 16, 1929 - August 20, 2019

October

• Publication Highlight: Wisdom in Medical Decision Making

November

• Publication Highlight: Ethical Issues Encountered During the Medical Student Surgical Clerkship
• Bioethics Resource: Physician Aid in Dying - What It Is and What Isn't

December

• Publication Highlight: Attitudes About Sickness Presenteeism in Medical Training: Is There a Hidden Curriculum?
• Bioethics Educational Topic of the Month: Evaluation of a Surrogate Decision-Maker - What if the Surrogate Does not Seem to Represent the Patient's Previously Expressed Wishes?