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Bioethics Education in Pakistan: taking on the challenge Aamir Jafarey. 95% of Postgraduate and 61% of undergraduate medical institutions did not teach bioethics 35% institutions surveyed had an Ethical Review Committee 27% medical educational institutions had a Hospital Ethics Committee.
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Bioethics Education in Pakistan: taking on the challengeAamir Jafarey
95% of Postgraduate and 61% of undergraduate medical institutions did not teach bioethics 35% institutions surveyed had an Ethical Review Committee 27% medical educational institutions had a Hospital Ethics Committee Current scenario
Inauguration at the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation Karachi in October 2004 Only such initiative in the country Centre of Biomedical Ethics and Culture (CBEC)
Organized by CBEC Offered free of cost to all students Awarded by the Karachi University Graduated first batch in December 2006 Postgraduate Diploma in Biomedical Ethics
Modular Part time Contact sessions Distance learning component Diploma Format
Faculty led discussions Student presentations based discussions Ethics through the arts and literature Ethics through movies Small group work Workshops Assignments Contact sessions
Web based thematic discussions Email based “postings” and “responses” Critical analyses Distance learning
Bioethics Curriculum development Undergraduate Medical Students * Postgraduate Medical Students * Biotechnology Students High School Students * Policy Development for Institutions DNR Policy Code for Physician-Pharmaceutical Interactions Guidelines for Stem Cell Research Projects
Bioethics Educational Group for Institutions Constitution of IRB/ERC Hospital Ethics Committee Projects
Graduates appearing in national and international conferences Organizing bioethics workshops Already having an impact? Limited follow up
Karachi: 19 Hyderabad: 2 Quetta: 1 Lahore: 4 Islamabad: 2
Diploma will be a means of addressing the immediate needs Diploma graduates will form core group of future Masters students CBEC graduates will initiate their own programs at their parent institutions Our Hopes