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CURRICULUM GUIDE FOR RESEARCH ETHICS WORKSHOPS FOR COUNTRIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Author(s) -
SILVERMAN HENRY,
AHMED BABIKER,
AJEILET SAMAR,
ALFADIL SUMAIA,
ALAMAD SUHAIL,
ELDESSOUKY HADIR,
ELGENDY IBRAHIM,
ELGUINDI MOHAMED,
ELNIMEIRI MUSTAFA,
MUZAFFAR RANA,
SALEH AZZA
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
developing world bioethics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.398
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 1471-8847
pISSN - 1471-8731
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-8847.2009.00261.x
Subject(s) - curriculum , consistency (knowledge bases) , research ethics , engineering ethics , medical education , work (physics) , certificate , sociology , pedagogy , medicine , engineering , computer science , artificial intelligence , mechanical engineering , algorithm
To help ensure the ethical conduct of research, many have recommended educational efforts in research ethics to investigators and members of research ethics committees (RECs). One type of education activity involves multi‐day workshops in research ethics. To be effective, such workshops should contain the appropriate content and teaching techniques geared towards the learning styles of the targeted audiences. To ensure consistency in content and quality, we describe the development of a curriculum guide, core competencies and associated learning objectives and activities to help educators organize research ethics workshops in their respective institutions. The curriculum guide is divided into modular units to enable planners to develop workshops of different lengths and choose content materials that match the needs, abilities, and prior experiences of the target audiences. The content material in the curriculum guide is relevant for audiences in the Middle East, because individuals from the Middle East who participated in a Certificate Program in research ethics selected and developed the training materials (e.g., articles, powerpoint slides, case studies, protocols). Also, many of the activities incorporate active‐learning methods, consisting of group work activities analyzing case studies and reviewing protocols. The development of such a workshop training curriculum guide represents a sustainable educational resource to enhance research ethics capacity in the Middle East.