Importance of ethics for doctors stressed

Our Correspondent

Hamirpur, August 14

Human ethical values are important for medical professionals, said Dr Bikas Medhi, Professor of Pharmacology at the PGI, Chandigarh, here yesterday. He was addressing medical professionals at a workshop on ethics organised under the aegis of the Indian Pharmacology Society (IPS) in collaboration with the Department of Pharmacology of Dr Radhakrishanan Government Medical College here. Dr Medhi spoke in detail on how to write a clinical trial and the role and responsibilities of the Institutional Ethics Committee.

Dr Anil Chauhan, Principal of the medical college, stressed the value of good clinical practice guidelines and a number of research projects in progress at the RKGMC. He said that such workshops were useful for young researchers.

Dr Pratima Thakur, Chairman of the Institutional Ethics Committee, and Dr Ritu Shitak, Head of Department of Pharmacology, also addressed the workshop.