Research Ethics

The centre for Applied Ethics was created in April 2014 as part of a broad restructuring of ethics services at the MUHC.  The 9 Research Ethics Boards (REBs), as well as research ethics, support services have been part of this exercise.   Changes to the REB structure come into effect April 1, 2015.  These will not affect the general principles of how research involving humans is approved.  However, these changes aim at increasing efficiency while maintaining high-quality review of research.

• There is one MUHC REB and 5 specialised panels
• The 5 specialised panels will conduct both Science and Ethics review and will meet twice a month on average;
• Submission deadlines are abolished;

• The CAE staff will conduct pre-reviews of all studies to ensure 
  • completeness, 
  • minimal quality of documents submitted and 
  • assess level of risk and initiate delegated review of minimal risk studies (instead of full board reviews).