E‐learning of evidence‐based health care (EBHC) to increase EBHC competencies in healthcare professionals: a systematic review by Anke Rohwer, Nkengafac Villyen Motaze, Eva Rehfuess, Taryn Young

“…Participants were medical doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, physician assistants, athletic trainers and a combination of professionals at all levels of education. …”
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Aligning Preprofessional Student Experiences in Integrative Group Medical Visits with Integrative Medicine Core Competencies by Malik K. Tiedt, Bethany M. Kavalakatt, Aisha Chilcoat, Jessica L. Barnhill, Isabel J. Roth

“…could teach CIH competencies across specialties and may improve multidisciplinary collaboration as a wide range of professionals (physicians, advanced practice nurses, physician assistants, pharmacists, dentists, and naturopathic doctors) have completed integrative medicine fellowships.16 Student reflections presented within this commentary were shaped by mentors with qualifications and years of experience in CIH. …”
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The Part of the Primary Care Provider in our National Awakening to Systemic Racism by Katie Chaucer, Monika DeTurk

“…As community leaders, all PCPs, including medical doctors, doctors of osteopathy, physician assistants, and advanced practice nurses, are morally called to combat systemic racism. …”
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The Push to Integrate Mid-Level Providers into Dentistry by Angelica Dallas

“…Nurse practitioners and physician assistants have been providing direct care for patients with the oversight of licensed physicians for many years. …”
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Wit by Julia Bolzon

“…Death Talk: The Case Against Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide.McGill-Queen’s University Press. 2001. 218-223. [3] A story I read recently depicts a patient dying of cancer in an isolation room, screaming of pain, whom the nurses avoided because there was nothing left for them to do, as much as they wanted to help. …”
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Death with Dignity in Canada by Anna Vargo

“…"Ethical Considerations in the Regulation of Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Death in Canada." Health Policy 119, no. 11 (2015): 1490-98. …”
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Competence or Experience by Jonathan Tenenbaum

“…As Foley describes, “The public's fear of pain and the media's portrayal that physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia are the only reliable options for pain relief… demand that health care delivery systems commit their efforts to improve pain relief at an institutional level.”[10] Indeed, the issue of insufficient pain management is all too common in pediatrics. …”
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Fostering Medical Students’ Commitment to Beneficence in Ethics Education by Philip Reed, Joseph Caruana

“…For example, early editions of their book opposed the legalization of physician-assisted death compared to recent editions that defended it.[3] As another example, Beauchamp and Childress make paternalism harder to justify by adding an autonomy-protecting condition to the list of conditions for acceptable paternalism.[4] Authority, they contend, need not conflict with autonomy—provided the authority is autonomously chosen.[5] “The main requirement,” they write, “is to respect a particular patient’s or subject’s autonomous choices, whatever they may be.[6] In the principlism of Beauchamp and Childress, autonomy now seems to have a kind of default priority.[7] However, the bioethics discourse has strong counternarratives, noting some movement to elevate the role of beneficence and to respect the input of stakeholders, including the family and the healthcare team. …”
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