Is your medical association developing or revising a policy or guidelines on an ethical issue? You may want to get advice from others that have already dealt with the issue. Here are three lists of organizations that are engaged in ethics activities: one for national medical associations (with web site, link to Code of Ethics, and email address for ethics contact), the second for international organizations (web site only), and the third for directories of national ethics committees and bioethics organisations.

National Medical Associations

American Medical Association
Web sites: http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/2498.html, http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/2558.html
Code of Ethics: http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/2498.html
Contact: ceja@ama-assn.org, ife@ama-assn.org

Collegi Oficial de Metges d'Andorra
Codigo Deontologico / Code Déontologie / Code of Ethics : http://www.col-legidemetges.ad/
Contacto : bioetica@confederacionmedica.org.ar

La Confederación Médica de la República Argentina
Código de ética : http://www.comra.health.org.ar/pagina_codigo_etica.htm
Contacto : bioetica@confederacionmedica.org.ar

Australian Medical Association
Web site: http://www.ama.com.au/web.nsf/topic/policy-medical-ethics?opendocument&cat=All
Code of Ethics: http://www.ama.com.au/web.nsf/doc/WEEN-5M4VJV
Contact : ama@ama.com.auorg.ar

Colegio Médico de Bolivia
Código de ética: http://www.colmedbo.org/
Contacto: info@colmedbo.org

British Medical Association
Web site: http://www.bma.org.uk/ap.nsf/Content/__Hub+ethics
Contact: ethics@BMA.org.uk

Canadian Medical Association
Web site: http://www.cma.ca/index.cfm/ci_id/3262/la_id/1.htm
Code of Ethics: http://www.cma.ca/cma/common/displayPage.do?pageId=/staticContent/HTML/N0/l2/where_we_stand/code.htm
Ethics contact: Ethics@cma.ca

Colegio Médico de Chile
Sitio en Internet: http://www.colegiomedico.cl/area_gremial.asp?ids=183
Código de ética: http://www.colegiomedico.cl/area_gremial.asp?ids=140
Contact : portal@colegiomedico.cl

Danish Medical Association
Web site: http://www.laegeforeningen.dk/lf/vaerktoej/english.htm#ethics
Contact: jf@dadl.dk

Finnish Medical Association
Web site: http://www.laakariliitto.fi/e/ethics/
Code of Ethics: http://www.laakariliitto.fi/e/ethics/code_of_ethics.html
Contact: fma@fimnet.fi

German Medical Association
Contact: auslandsdienst@baek.de

Indian Medical Association
Web site: http://www.imanational.com/his/mci.asp
Code of Ethics: http://www.imanational.com/his/chapter1.asp
Contact: http://www.imanational.com/contactus.asp

Israel Medical Association
Web site: http://www.ima.org.il/en/inner.asp?p=8&n=127&Par=8
Code of Ethics: http://www.ima.org.il/en/inner.asp?p=8&n=127&Par=8
Contact: edit@ima.org.il

Japan Medical Association
Web site: http://www.med.or.jp/english/5_01_03.html
Code of Ethics: http://www.med.or.jp/english/2_princi.html
Contact: jmaintl@po.med.or.jp

Korean Medical Association
Code of Ethics: http://www.kma.org/english/5_ethics.asp?imagename=Image17&newimage=images/b_m5b.gif
Contact: intl@kma.org

Malaysian Medical Association
Code of ethics: http://www.mma.org.my/charters/Ethical_code2.pdf
Contact: mma@tm.net.my

Colegio Médico de México
Contacto : dvalencia78@hotmail.com

New Zealand Medical Association
Code of Ethics: http://www.nzma.org.nz/about/ethics.html
Contact: nzma@nzma.org.nz

Norwegian Medical Association
Web site: http://www.legeforeningen.no/index.db2?id=16481&PHPSESSID=f792410cfba418013d9dae07544d6da7
Code of Ethics: http://www.legeforeningen.no/index.db2?id=297
Contact: reidun.forde@legeforeninen.no

Colegio Médico del Perú
Sitio en Internet: www.cmp.org.pe
Código de ética: www.cmp.org.pe
Contacto: decano@colmedi.org.pe

Philippine Medical Association
Code of ethics: http://www.pma.com.ph/
Contact: pmasec1@edsamail.com.ph

Singapore Medical Association
Web site: http://www.sma.org.sg/cmep/
Code of Ethics: http://www.sma.org.sg/cmep/
Contact: ethics@sma.org.sg

South Africa Medical Association
Web site: http://www.samedical.org/page.asp?pageid=12
Contact: online@samedical.org

Consejo General de Colegios Oficiales de Médicos de España
Sitio en Internet: http://www.cgcom.org/deonto/index.html
Código de ética: http://www.cgcom.org/pdf/Codigo.pdf

Fédération des médecins suisses
Site web : http://www.fmh.ch/ww/fr/pub/fmh/le_code_de_d_ontologie_de_la_f.htm
Le Code de déontologie : http://www.fmh.ch/ww/fr/pub/fmh/le_code_de_d_ontologie_de_la_f.htm
à contacter : fmhinfo@hin.ch

Sindicato Médico del Uruguay
Sitio en Internet: http://www.smu.org.uy/elsmu/institucion/comisiones/bioetica/
Código de ética: http://www.smu.org.uy/publicaciones/libros/laetica/
Contacto: pineyrua@smu.org.uy

Federación Médica Venezolana
Código de ética: http://www.saludfmv.org/archivos/deontologia.pdf
Contacto:info@saludfmv.org

Religious Medical Associations

Islamic Organization for Medical Sciences - http://www.islamset.com/ioms/contents.html

Islamic Ethics - http://www.islamset.com/ethics/index.html

Christian Medical and Dental Associations - http://www.cmdahome.org/

World Federation of the Catholic Medical Associations - http://perso.club-internet.fr/frblin/fiamc/welcome.html

International

FIGO - http://www.figo.org/default.asp?id=6000

World Psychiatric Association - http://www.wpanet.org/home.html

Standing Committee of European Doctors - http://www.cpme.be/main.htm

WHO - http://www.who.int/ethics/en/

CIOMS - http://www.cioms.ch/

UNESCO - http://portal.unesco.org/shs/en/ev.php@URL_ID=1837&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

Council of Europe (Bioethics) - http://www.coe.int/T/E/Legal_affairs/legal_co-operation/Bioethics/

European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies - http://europa.eu.int/comm/european_group_ethics/index_en.htm

European Forum for Good Clinical Practice - http://www.efgcp.org/index.asp

National Ethics Committees

http://www.coe.int/T/E/Legal_Affairs/Legal_co-operation/Bioethics/Links/04ethics_committees.asp#TopOfPage

http://europa.eu.int/comm/european_group_ethics/liens_en.htm

UNESCO Database of Bioethics Organizations - http://databases.unesco.org/bioethics/wwwi32.exe/[in=interro.in]/