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

Website: http://www.ama-assn.org/
Code of Ethics: http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/physician-resources/medical-ethics/code-medical-ethics.page
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.org.ar/
Contacto: bioetica@confederacionmedica.org.ar

Australian Medical Association

Website: http://ama.com.au/
Contact: ama@ama.com.auorg.ar

Colegio Médico de Bolivia

Código de ética: http://www.colegiomedicodebolivia.org.bo/
Contacto: info@colmedbo.org

British Medical Association

Website: http://www.bma.org.uk
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/code-of-ethics
Ethics contact: Ethics@cma.ca

Colegio Médico de Chile

Sitio en Internet: http://www.colegiomedico.cl/
Código de ética: http://www.colegiomedico.cl/Default.aspx?tabid=248
Contacto : portal@colegiomedico.cl

Danish Medical Association

Website: http://www.laeger.dk/portal/page/portal/LAEGERDK/Laegerdk/Servicemenu/ENGLISH
Contact: jf@dadl.dk

Consejo General de Colegios Oficiales de Médicos de España

Sitio en Internet: https://www.cgcom.es/
Código de ética: http://comisiondeontologica.cgcom.es/pfn/accion.php?PHPSESSID=5f8260fc553a05d15e8a3112368563a9&dir=.&accion=buscador

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

Website: http://www.baek.de/
Contact: auslandsdienst@baek.de

Indian Medical Association

Website: http://www.ima-india.org/index1.html
Contact: http://www.ima-india.org/IMA_contact_us.html

Israel Medical Association

Website: http://www.ima.org.il/ENG/Default.aspx
Contact: edit@ima.org.il

Japan Medical Association

Website: http://www.med.or.jp/english/
Code of Ethics: http://www.med.or.jp/english/about_JMA/principles.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/Resources/Codes/tabid/78/Default.aspx
Contact: mma@tm.net.my

Colegio Médico de México

Site Internet : http://www.colegiomedicodemexico.org.mx/
Contacto : dvalencia78@hotmail.com

New Zealand Medical Association

Code of Ethics: http://www.nzma.org.nz/publications/other-nzma-publications/code-of-ethics
Contact: nzma@nzma.org.nz

Norwegian Medical Association

Website: http://legeforeningen.no/english/
Contact: reidun.forde@legeforeninen.no

Colegio Médico del Perú

Sitio en Internet: www.cmp.org.pe
Contacto: decano@colmedi.org.pe

Philippine Medical Association

Code of Ethics: https://www.philippinemedicalassociation.org/
Contact: pmasec1@edsamail.com.ph

Singapore Medical Association

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

South Africa Medical Association

Website: http://www.samedical.org
Contact: online@samedical.org

Fédération des médecins Suisses

Website: http://www.fmh.ch/fr/index.html
Contact: 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

Website: http://www.federacionmedicavenezolana.org/fmv2010/
Contacto: info@saludfmv.org

Religious Medical Associations

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

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

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

World Federation of the Catholic Medical Associations - http://www.fiamc.org/

International

FIGO - http://www.figo.org

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

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

OMS - http://www.who.int/ethics/en/index.html

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

Concil of Europe (Bioethics) - http://www.coe.int/t/dg3/healthbioethic/default_EN.asp?

European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies - http://ec.europa.eu/bepa/european-group-ethics/index_en.htm

European Forum for Good Clinical Practice - http://www.efgcp.be/

National Ethics Committes

http://ec.europa.eu/bepa/european-group-ethics/ethics-links/index_en.htm

UNESCO Banque de données des Organisations de Bioéthique - 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

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

UNESCO Chair in Bioethics 9th World Conference - BIOETHICS, MEDICAL ETHICS & HEALTH LAW Towards the 21st Centry, in Naples, Italy, 19-21 November 2013 - First Announcement and Call for Abstracts