EDITOR: We have read with great interest the article by Carrero and colleagues [1] comparing lecture-based approach and case/problem-based learning discussion for teaching pre-anaesthetic assessment. The authors found, in two groups of first year anaesthesiology residents, that the effectiveness of the two educational methods differed little in terms of improving participants’ immediate knowled...

Clinical geneticists are increasingly confronted with ethical tensions between their responsibilities to individual patients and to other family members. This paper considers the ethical implications of a "familial" conception of the clinical genetics role. It argues that dogmatic adherence to either the familial or to the individualistic conception of clinical genetics has the potential to lea...

BACKGROUND Given that advances in research continuously raise new ethical issues, a multidisciplinary working group of investigators involved in biomedical research has gathered to discuss and compare ethical viewpoints in their daily practice. METHODS The working group has drafted a Charter for Ethics in Biomedical Research that encompasses all the steps in the research process, i.e. from th...

This is a brief exploration of the ethical issues raised for psychiatrists, and for universities, schools and wider society, by the demand that they attend mandatory training as part of the UK government's Prevent counter-terrorism strategy. The silence on this matter to date on the part of the General Medical Council, medical Royal Colleges, and the British Medical Association is a failure of ...

P. M. Haygarth,1* G. S. Bilotta,1,2 R. Bol,1 R. E. Brazier,2 P. J. Butler,1 J. Freer,3 L. J. Gimbert,4 S. J. Granger,1 T. Krueger,3 C. J. A. Macleod,1 P. Naden,5 G. Old,5 J. N. Quinton,3 B. Smith5 and P. Worsfold4 1 Cross Institute Programme for Sustainable Soil Function (SoilCIP), Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research (IGER), North Wyke Research Station, Okehampton, Devon, EX20 2SB...

In the United Kingdom the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has statutory responsibility for regulating practice in the areas of assisted procreation and research on human embryos. As such it has an almost unique responsibility in the United Kingdom for ethical review of both clinical research and practice in a given field. It is therefore interesting to ask whether it has a u...

M. A. Sutton, E. Nemitz, C. Milford, C. Campbell, J. W. Erisman, A. Hensen, P. Cellier, M. David, B. Loubet, E. Personne, J. K. Schjoerring, M. Mattsson, J. R. Dorsey, M. W. Gallagher, L. Horvath, T. Weidinger, R. Meszaros, U. Dämmgen, A. Neftel, B. Herrmann, B. E. Lehman***†, C. Flechard, and J. Burkhardt Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (Edinburgh Research Station) (CEH), Bush Estate, Penicui...

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BACKGROUND Commentators have expressed concern regarding the existence of proper ethics review systems in developing countries. Our aim is to explore the extent with which investigators from countries in the Eastern Mediterranean (EM) Region consider several ethical practices in the conduct of their research. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Investigators from 12 countries in the EM region subm...

PURPOSE Independent ethical review committees safeguard participants in human research. The purpose of this study was to describe the current ethical guidelines for human research requirements in the Instructions to Authors of the English language medical journals previously studied in 1995. METHODS The instructions to authors of English language medicine journals from the Abridged Index Medi...