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Ethics

This clinical rotation is coordinated through the UMMMC Office of Ethics. It is available for a 2 or 4 week month rotation. Contact Scot Bateman MD (scot.bateman@umassmemorial.org) for information or Monick Powell (monick.powell@umassmed.edu) for help with scheduling this rotation.

Here, you can find the Goals and Objectives of the rotation as well as a Curriculum Overview.

Links for valuable resources are below:

AAAS and The Hastings Center: Behavioral Genetics Project Publications (2004, 2005)
American Medical Association Ethics Resource Center
American Medical Association Council for Ethical and Judicial Affairs
The Belmont Report: Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research (1979)
NHGRI: Promoting Safe and Effective Genetic Testing in the United States: Final Report of the Task Force on Genetic Testing (1997)
NHGRI: Protecting Human Research Subjects (1993)
NHGRI: Report on The Joint NIH/DOE Committee to Evaluate the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Program of the Human Genome Project (Committee Appointed 1996)
NHGRI: Studying Interactions Among Social, Behavioral and Genetic Factors in Health (2001)
NHGRI: A Vision for the Future of Genomics Research (2003)
Nuffield Council on Bioethics: the Ethics of Patenting DNA (2002)
Nuffield Council on Bioethics: Genetic Screening: Ethical Issues (1993)
Nuffield Council on Bioethics: Genetics and Human Behaviour: the Ethical Context (2002)
Nuffield Council on Bioethics: Mental Disorders and Genetics: the Ethical Context (1998)
The Nuremberg Code (1949)
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH)
Bioethics Research Library at Georgetown University
The Kennedy Institute of Ethics
Bioethics Resources on the Web, from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Center for Genetics and Society
The Hastings Center
International Bioethics Committee
The President's Council on Bioethics (USA)

If you would like to update the information on this page, email kathryn.wynne@umassmemorial.org