Ethics Committee
What's new
The Ethics Committee provides ethics reflection and guidance on issues of interest to the CFPC and family physicians, including CFPC policies, strategies and priorities.
End-of-life care
The College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) is proud to support its members with a release of A Guide for Reflection on Ethical Issues Concerning Assisted Suicide and Voluntary Euthanasia, created by the CFPC Task Force on End-of-Life Care.
A Guide for Reflection on Ethical Issues Concerning Assisted Suicide and Voluntary Euthanasia
Learn more about the Guide and the process leading to its creation in the CFPC Task Force on End-of-Life Care Summary report
Other resource: Principles-based Recommendations for a Canadian Approach to Assisted Dying: the Canadian Medical Association’s (CMA’s) framework on assisted dying for physicians
Who we are
Chair
Dr. Ross Upshur, Ontario
Members
Dr. Madeleine Cole, Nunavut
Dr. James Simmonds, British Columbia
Dr. Mathieu Moreau, Québec
Dr. Tim Holland, Nova Scotia
Dr. Alexi Kuhnow, Section of Residents
Dr. Barry Pakes, CMA Observer
Dr. Patrick McDonald, Royal College Observer
Prof. Jennifer L. Gibson, Expert
The College of Family Physicians of Canada staff
Arlen Keen, Manager, Health Policy and Government Relations
Artem Safarov, Director, Health Policy and Government Relations
Alison Soares, Project Manager, Health Policy and Government Relations
Resources
Terms of Reference: Ethics Committee
Ethics resources for members, residents, and students
Teaching and practicing ethics in family medicine
What is the best approach for teaching ethics? Understanding that no single teaching methodology will fit well for all teachers in all settings, the Ethics Committee developed the Ethics in Family Medicine: Faculty Handbook, to provide faculty with a hands-on “how-to” approach. Use this practical guide when developing or reviewing curricula for teaching ethics and professionalism, and for training new faculty members.
Ethics in Family Medicine: Faculty Handbook
The Handbook is designed to provide easy access to information to such topics as:
Competencies for Ethics and Professionalism in Canadian Family Medicine Residency Programs: addressing ethical questions and concerns
Ethics Primer: a primer for teachers identifying values, ethical issues and suggested case analysis method
Sample Lesson Template: connecting simple ideas with standard sets of values
Sample lesson plans
Deriving Family Medicine Values
Continuity of Care in the Hospital Setting
Reproductive Choice and Nontraditional Families
Tips for Integrating Ethics in Clinic
Mapping Ethical Values to CanMEDS-FM Roles (Appendix 2): identifying values referenced in CanMEDS–Family Medicine
Library Services
Members of the College of Family Physicians (CFCP) of Canada may request assistance from Library Services if they need help with conducting a search or in obtaining an article.
Submit a Library Services request form
For more details, contact Library Services by email
Codes, policies, and statements
Canadian Medical Association Code of Ethics (updated 2004)
Code of Ethics of Physicians from the Collège des médecins du Québec
Government of Canada Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct of Research Involving Humans
World Medical Association International Code of Medical Ethics
World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki
Organizations and centres
American College of Physicians—Ethics and Professionalism
Canadian Institutes of Health Research Ethics
Bioethics Research Library: from Georgetown University’s Kennedy Institute of Ethics
World Medical Association, Ethics
World Medical Association, Medical Ethics Education
Other resources
Bioethics for clinicians series: the Canadian Medical Association Journal’s (CMAJ’s) series on consent, research ethics, and resource allocation, featuring case studies, definitions, and ethical/legal issues
The Literature, Arts and Medicine Database (LitMed): a multimedia list of prose, poetry, film, videos for teaching, and research in the medical humanities, created by faculty of the New York University School of Medicine, with annotations by an invited editorial board of scholars from all over North America
Version 2.0 of the Virtual Mentor: the American Medical Association’s interactive, web-based forum for analysis and discussion of ethical and professional issues that medical students, residents and young physicians encounter during their educational training
