As part of its mandate, the Committee on Ethics of the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CE-CFPC) has contributed to ethics curriculum development for family medicine residents and provided ethics teaching resources since 1990. More recently, the committee has undertaken a review of previously available resources and formulated new goals for family medicine ethics curricula. The Ethics in...

BACKGROUND All research involving human participants should be reviewed by a competent and independent institutional research and ethics committee. Research conducted at Makerere University College of Health Sciences should be subjected to a rigorous review process by the ethics committee in order to protect human participants' interests, rights and welfare. OBJECTIVE To evaluate researchers'...