Committee on Ethics

  Committee on Ethics Roster

  Ethics Resources Available for  Surgeons

• Expert Witness Affirmation
  • EWA Letter (491K PDF)
  • EWA Certificate (15K PDF)
• American College of Surgeons Statements on Principles
• Annotated Bibliography of Ethics in Surgery
• Institute for Ethics of the AMA
• American Society of Transplant Surgeons: A Bibliography of Ethics and Transplantation
• American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons: Opinion on Ethics
• Ethics and Philosophy Lectures
• Scope of Practice

  2002 Clinical Congress, October 6-10, San Francisco, CA: Ethics Topics

• Ethics Colloquium: The Ethics of Entrepreneurialism in Surgery
  Moderator: John T. Preskitt, MD, FACS, Dallas, TX
• Ethics and Philosophy Lecture: Roger S. Foster, MD, FACS, Shelburne, VT

  Curricula in Ethics

• Ethics Curriculum for Surgical Residents - Coming soon!
• Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Bioethics Curricula
• University of Pennsylvania Ethics Curriculum: Bioethics for Beginners 

The Committee on Ethics welcomes your comments. Please write to the Committee's staff liaison, Laura Meyer, at laurameyer@facs.org.

Committees and Task Forces

Division of Education