Community Tools: Useful Links

Clinical Ethics Links:

Associations

• Canadian Bioethics Society
• Canadian Medical Association Policy Summary: Code of Ethics of the Canadian Medical Association
• Canadian Medical Association
• Canadian Nurses Association, Nursing Ethics
• Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Clinical Ethics Centre
• University of Washington School of Medicine "Ethics in Medicine: Bioethics Topics"
• Women's Bioethics Project

 

Culture

• Cultural Profiles: Information about immigrants to Canada from a variety of different countries prepared by the Canadian government

 

End-of-Life

• Death and Dying, Media Resources

 

Ethics Committees

• University of Buffalo Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care on-line manual, "Ethics Committee Core Curriculum: An Orientation Manual for Ethics Committee Members" . See especially "Definition of terms" and "Ethics Committees: Functions and Models" .
• University of Pittsburgh Community Ethics Program Community Ethics articles, "Survival on the Ethics Committee: A Nurse's Guide"
• University of Washington School of Medicine "Ethics in Medicine" topic: Ethics Committees and Ethics Consultation

 

Ethics Consultation

• American Society for Bioethics and Humanities report on "Core Competencies for Health Care Ethics Consultation"
• Society of Health and Human Values and Society for Bioethics Consultation (SHHV-SBC) "Draft Discussion of the SHHV-SBC Task Force on Standards for Bioethics Consultation"

 

Ethical Decision Making

• Harvard University's Program in Ethics and the Professions discussion, "What is Practical Ethics?"
• University of British Columbia Centre for Applied Ethics' "A Framework for Ethical Decision Making" by Michael McDonald
• University of Washington School of Medicine Clinical Ethics Methodology
• University of Washington School of Medicine "Ethics in Medicine" Principles of Bioethics , Interdisciplinary Team Issues , and Law and Medical Ethics

 

Journals

• Canadian Medical Association Journal "Bioethics for Clinicians" series
• Indian Journal of Medical Ethics
• Biomed Central Medical Ethics
• Electronic British Medical Journal article, "Shared ethical principles for everybody in health care: a working draft from the Tavistock Group"
• SciDev.Net

 

Legislation

• Ontario statutes and regulations, e-Laws

 

Research Ethics

• Tri Council Policy Statement Tutorial: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans
• Neuroethics Research Unit, Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal

 

Education Links:

• Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC), Bioethics Education Project
• The Ethics Objective Structured Clinicial Examinations (OSCE)
• Pathways School of Philosophy
• PhiloSophos Knowledge Base
• The Provincial Health Ethics Network (Alberta, Canada), Distance Education Course
• Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ), "Bioethics for Clinicians" Series
• College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC), Family Medicine Ethics Education
• Centre on Values & Ethics (COVE), Carleton University

 

Research Links:

• Canadian Health Services Research Foundation
• Canadian Institutes for Health Research
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
• University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine Research
• University of Toronto Research