Structure, aims and functions
- A Bioethics Research Platform is being set up within the Faculty of Medicine & Surgery.
- The aims of the platform are the following:
(a) to promote research in bioethics, to encourage ethical reflections in clinical practice and to support patients’ rights;
(b) to collaborate with Faculties, Institutes and Centres in the teaching of bioethics at the University, including supervision of dissertations in relevant areas;
(c) to promote Good Clinical Practice guidelines (GCP);
(d) to conduct research in bioethics and collaborate with individuals and institutions, both local and foreign;
(e) to offer ethical advisory services, including assessment reports;
(f) to raise public awareness in bioethics and patients’ rights.
- The platform shall have the following structure:
(a) the Board shall consist of the Coordinator, as Chair, and four other members, appointed by Senate on the recommendation of the Faculty Board of Medicine and Surgery of whom at least two should be members of the Faculty of Medicine & Surgery, and one, who is an ethicist or moral theologian working at the University;
(b) the appointment of the Coordinator and the members of the Board shall be for one year, which can be renewed.
- The platform will operate as a cost centre with the ability to raise its own funds, subject to the University’s financial regulations.
Approved by Senate on 28 April 2009
Revised in 2014.
