Members of the Society of General Internal Medicine Ethics Committee and Ethics and Humanities Interest group have compiled this list of websites that are useful for teaching, research or improving skills in clinical ethics.
If you would like to have a website added to the list, contact Daniel Pomerantz, M.D., M.P.H.
Types of Ethics References
| American Medical Association - Virtual Mentor | | Online journal with articles on many topics in clincal ethics. |
| American Society for Bioethics and Humanities | | National organization; links to training programs, academic resources |
| Bioethics on the Web (National Institutes of Health) | | List of resources for research and clinical ethics |
| Bioethics.com | | "Your global information source on bioethics news and issues." |
| Bioethics.gov | | President’s Council on Bioethics, transcripts on meetings on various important bioethics topics |
| Bioethics.net (the American Journal of Bioethics) | | American Journal of Bioethics, bioethics news and blogs, listings of jobs, fellowships, and training programs as well |
| CMAJ Bioethics for Clinicians | | Case studies with commentary. Legal commentary refers to Canadian law. |
| Educating Future Physicians for Ontario Ethics OSCE | | OSCE (observed structured clinical exam) program |
| End of Life/Palliative Education Resource Center (Medical College of Wisconsin) | | Educational resources related to end of life and palliative care |
| ERIC; Educational Resources Information Center | | Searchable database of articles describing issues in education or reports of teaching methods, includes medical ethics |
| Ethicshare.org | | “A research and collaboration Web site for scholars working in the field of ethics.” |
| Ethics Updates (University of San Diego) | | Educational resources |
| Hastings Center | | Educational resources |
| JAMA & Archives | | A topic collection of articles from JAMA and the Archives journals |
| Kennedy Institute of Ethics Library & Information Services (Georgetown University) | | National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature; includes ETHXWeb, searchable database of bioethics literature; Scope Notes, summaries and annotated bibliographies of classical issues in medical ethics; |
| MedEdPortal | | Wide variety of medical education resources with a number indexed under “medical ethics.” Includes cases and curricula. |
| NEJM Medical Ethics Collection (January 1996-current) | | Analysis and commentary on medical ethics |
| Trent Center for Bioethics list of websites (Duke) | | Resource guide to other websites |
| University of Minnesota Center for Bioethics | | Resources and links to other resources, including downloadable summaries and overviews |
| University of Washington School of Medicine- Ethics in Medicine | | Broad range of case studies |
| VA National Center for Health Care Ethics | | Includes National Ethics Committee Reports (10-15 page resources), InFocus 2 page reports on specific issues, free PDFs, and links to Pubmed articles, bibliographies |
Professionals
Compiled by:
Alexia Torke, MD, MS
Julie Rosenbaum, MD
Neil Farber, MD
Jon Tilburt, MD