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AMA Code of Medical Ethics: Guidance in a pandemic

The AMA Code of Medical Ethics offers foundational guidance for health care professionals and institutions responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Research ethics in a public health crisis

Pressure to act on a therapeutic intervention doesn't justify relaxing standards for ethical clinical research; the Code of Medical Ethics articulates standards for research involving participants during a public health crisis.

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Pandemic serves up new questions of medical right and wrong

Learn with the AMA’s top experts about the medical ethics issues emerging amid the COVID-19 global pandemic and how physicians can navigate them.

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Protecting public health & vulnerable populations in a pandemic

AMA provides guidance on the responsibility physicians have to advocacy and protect vulnerable patients and populations during a pandemic.

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Providing patient care remotely in a pandemic

​​​​​​​Principle IX of the AMA Principles of Medical Ethics provides that physicians should “[s]upport access to care for all people.”

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Fair access to limited critical care resources

Physicians’ dual obligations to serve both the well-being of their individual patients and that of other patients and the community at large come into sharp tension in a pandemic.

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Graduating early to join the physician workforce

Guidance based on the AMA Medical Code of Ethics about when it is appropriate to involve medical students in providing direct patient care to supplement the physician workforce.

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Restrictive covenants and patient care in a pandemic

Guidance based on the AMA Code of Medical Ethics advises on whether physicians can provide care outside of a non-compete agreement or restrictive covenant during a pandemic.

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Speaking out on issues adversely affecting patient safety in a pandemic

Physicians have an ethical obligation to address conditions that adversely affect quality patient care. View the AMA guidance about speaking out on issues that affect patients during a pandemic.

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