title: [Continuing education in ethics: from clinical ethics to institutional ethics].
abstract: The mandate of the Ethics Committee of the Conseil de médecins, dentistes et pharmaciens (CMDP) at the Centre hospitalier universitaire de Sherbrooke (CHUS), Sherbrooke, Quebec is three-fold: to guide the clinical decision; to address the institutional ethical function; to create the program for continuing education in ethics (Formation éthique continue or FEC). Might FEC be the means of bridging from individual ethics to institutional ethics at a hospital?
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To take the FEC perspectives considered appropriate for doctors and consider them for validation or disproving in the context of those of other professionals.
  
  
  METHODS
  Situate the proposed FEC mandate in a reference framework to evaluate (or triangulate) the clinical decision and the institutional ethic. CONVICTION: Sustainable professional development for doctors (DPD) includes ethics; it cannot be ignored. Without constant attention to upgrading one's abilities in professional ethics, these suffer the same fate as other professional aptitudes and competences (for example, techniques and scientific knowledge): decay.
authors.affiliation: Université de Sherbrooke, CHUS-FMUS, Département de radiologie diagnostique, 3001, 12e Avenue Nord, Fleurimont, Québec, Canada J1H 5N4. Lucie.Brazeau.Lamontagne@USherbrooke.ca
authors.forename: Lucie
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Brazeau-Lamontagne
mesh_terms: D004496:Education, Continuing; D026690:Ethics, Clinical / Q000193:education*; D004991:Ethics, Institutional / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D011792:Quebec