title: Curriculum guide for research ethics workshops for countries in the Middle East.
abstract: To help ensure the ethical conduct of research, many have recommended educational efforts in research ethics to investigators and members of research ethics committees (RECs). One type of education activity involves multi-day workshops in research ethics. To be effective, such workshops should contain the appropriate content and teaching techniques geared towards the learning styles of the targeted audiences. To ensure consistency in content and quality, we describe the development of a curriculum guide, core competencies and associated learning objectives and activities to help educators organize research ethics workshops in their respective institutions. The curriculum guide is divided into modular units to enable planners to develop workshops of different lengths and choose content materials that match the needs, abilities, and prior experiences of the target audiences. The content material in the curriculum guide is relevant for audiences in the Middle East, because individuals from the Middle East who participated in a Certificate Program in research ethics selected and developed the training materials (e.g., articles, PowerPoint slides, case studies, protocols). Also, many of the activities incorporate active-learning methods, consisting of group work activities analyzing case studies and reviewing protocols. The development of such a workshop training curriculum guide represents a sustainable educational resource to enhance research ethics capacity in the Middle East.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of Maryland, 110 S. Paca Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, United States. hsilverm@medicine.umaryland.edu
authors.forename: Henry
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Silverman
authors.forename: Babiker
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ahmed
authors.forename: Samar
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ajeilet
authors.forename: Sumaia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Al-Fadil
authors.forename: Suhail
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Al-Amad
authors.forename: Hadir
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: El-Dessouky
authors.forename: Ibrahim
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: El-Gendy
authors.forename: Mohamed
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: El-Guindi
authors.forename: Mustafa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: El-Nimeiri
authors.forename: Rana
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Muzaffar
authors.forename: Azza
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Saleh
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004493:Education / Q000458:organization & administration; D032984:Ethics, Research / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008877:Middle East; D011380:Programmed Instructions as Topic; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*
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