Dermatoethics

lt;p>Lionel G. Bercovitch, MD specializes and is board certified in pediatric dermatology. Dr. Bercovitch attended medical school at the University of Manitoba Rady College of Medicine in Winnipeg,Canada and completed his dermatology residency at Brown University Affiliated Hospitals. He is director of pediatric dermatology at Hasbro Children's Hospital and Brown Dermatology and Professor of Dermatology at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Pediatric Dermatology,

Foundations of Dermatoethics.- Dermatology at the beginning and end of life.- Beyond the office visit: ethical obligations outside of the traditional dermatologist patient encounter.- Nontraditional interventions and drug dispensing.- Communication and the dermatologist-patient relationship.- Professional boundaries.- Dealing with difference.- Self-care and self -improvement.- Public health and advocacy.- Corporatization, consolidation, and conflict of interest in dermatology.- Honesty in advertising in dermatology.- Is there a moral obligation for dermatologists to accept health insurance?.- Distributive justice and drug dispensing and pricing.- Responsibilities of the trainee to the patient; disclosure, supervision, first-time procedures.- Faculty-resident-student and mentor-mentee relationships; healthy and unhealthy dynamics.- Ethics of residency and fellowship matches.- Ethical responsibilities of program directors.- Ethical responsibilities of department chairs.- Role of medical students in clinic.- Publication ethics.- Ethics of clinical trial design.- Respect for human subjects: Ethical obligations of investigators.- Clinical practice guidelines and conflicts of interest.- Role of industry in research funding; non-disclosure agreements.- Ethics for research consortiums.- Ethics of cutting edge trials for desperate patients.