Reading Assignments
Medical Schools and Education
Medical Schools in the United States
Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century"
End of Life Decisions
Autonomy for Burned Patients When Survival is nprecedented (Password protected)
The new "Tennessee Health Care Decisions Act" - Public Chapter 0862
Tennessee Health Care Decisions Act outline (pdf file of a PowerPoint)
Limits to Life-Sustaining Treatment - interactive tutorial
Becoming A Doctor
"How Becoming A Doctor Works" (from HOW STUFF WORKS)
Virtual Mentor (from the American Medical Association)
"The online ethics and professionalism journal of the AMA"
Confidentiality
Hand-out from Power Point (pdf format)
25 Professional Code Statements on Confidentiality
Slide Show - (works best on Internet Explorer, since it is adapted from a Power Point presentation)
PDF format - suitable for printing
Confidentiality - Ethics in Medicine curriculum - University of Washington School of Medicine
UT Medical Center Guidelines on Confidentiality
Tennessee List of Notifiable Diseases
Physician Appearance (The "White Coat Study")
"Clothes Make the Doctor" (news item summarizing the study)
The University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine
The Medical Explorations Program
1924 Alcoa Highway,
Box U-11
Knoxville, TN 37920
Phone:865-305-9294