Evaluation of the legislations of Ethics Committee of Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences in a 10-year period (1379-89)

The establishment of ethics committees in universities was notified by a circular in 1377 to achieve special aims. Ethics Committee of Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences was formed in 1379. The purpose of this descriptive study was to examine the legislations of this committee, and offer some suggestions to empower the members of faculty based on the findings of this study. Having obtained permis-sion of Ethics Committee of the university, we reviewed all the pro-ceedings of this committee during the previous 10 years and extracted the points suggested by this committee to each researcher. Totally, during the 10-year period 80 meetings were held, 610 legislations were recorded, and the number of notes and recommendations was 347. Most of the cases in the legislations included recommendations on getting informed consent and written permission and the least of them was related to the rejection of proposed research projects. Final-ly, according to the frequency of the legislations it is suggested that some training be offered to faculty members and university research-ers through holding workshops, virtual training, short-term training, etc.