The Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto is a consultative, multidisciplinary and independent body, created on February 10, 2021 by order of the Director of the Faculty of Medicine, published in the 2nd series of the Diário da República, no. 47, of 9 of March 2021, under No. 2631/2021.
The Ethics Committee is responsible for ensuring compliance with ethical standards in the exercise of medical sciences, life sciences and pedagogical teaching/learning and educational sciences, carrying out the analysis and reflection on topics of medical and biomedical practice, bioethics and biolaw involving issues of ethics, issuing opinions, or other types of documents, in order to protect and guarantee human dignity and integrity and safeguard the exercise of consent as a basis of respect for the autonomy of will, as well as guaranteeing the respect for animals and their well-being by virtue of their sentience, in accordance with current legislation.
Requests must be sent to comissaoetica@med.up.pt.