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.

Organisations

National Medical Associations

American Medical Association

Websites: 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

Website: http://www.bma.org.uk/ap.nsf/Content/__Hub+ethics
Contact: ethics@BMA.org.uk

Canadian Medical Association

Website: 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

Website: http://www.laegeforeningen.dk/lf/vaerktoej/english.htm#ethics
Contact: jf@dadl.dk

Finnish Medical Association

Website: 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

Website: 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

Website: 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

Website: 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

Website: 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

Website: http://www.sma.org.sg/cmep/
Code of Ethics: http://www.sma.org.sg/cmep/
Contact: ethics@sma.org.sg

South Africa Medical Association

Website: 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]/

Events

For announcements of forthcoming medical ethics and bioethics conferences you are invited to consult the following web sites:

World Health Organization Global Bioethics Calendar - http://www.who.int/ethics/events/en/

European Information Network (eureth.net) Bioethics Events Calendar - http://eurethnet.drze.de/events

Bulletin of Medical Ethics Meetings Page - http://www.bullmedeth.info/meetings.htm

Eubios Ethics Institute Conference list - http://www.eubios.info/Conf.htm