A continuing education program on the protection of human participants in research is available online at http://cme.nci.nih.gov. This program is developed by the National Cancer Institute in collaboration with several other NIH Institutes and offices.

An online tutorial for researchers on the protection of human research subjects - provided by NIH's Office of Human Subjects Research (OHSR)

Online Resource for Instruction in Responsible Conduct of Research from the University of California, San Diego.

Research on Human Specimens: are you conducting research using human subjects? provided by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the NIH.

Research with Experimental Subjects - the University of California at Irvine provides online tutorials for animal and human subject experimentation and EH&S; Bio Sci 194S.

Online Course On Ethical Issues in International Research - by the Harvard School of Public Health - The web site introduces major ethical topics in international health research, poses questions for students and scholars to consider, and also provides research resources and case studies.

A tutorial on informed consent - maintained by the University of Minnesota

CancerTrials - a clinical trials information resource from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The web page provides a guideline to understanding informed consent, templates for informed consent documents, related links, and tools for performing clinical trials.

HIV/AIDS Research Ethics page - the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) provides links to several online articles on the ethics of HIV/AIDS clinical trails

Moral Reasoning in Scientific Research - an 80-page booklet of materials for teaching the responsible conduct of science in college and university settings. Intended as a teaching aid for science faculty members, the booklet was developed at the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions at Indiana University.

Stanford University Research Policy Handbook - on the use of human subjects

UCLA's Investigator Manual for the Protection of Human Subjects

American Medical Association Virtual Mentor - an interactive, Web-based forum for analysis and discussion of ethical and professional issues that medical students encounter during their educational training. The Virtual Mentor content areas are designed to inform, awaken, and energize students to engage in a learning dialogue with experts in medicine, law, and bioethics.

Standardized patient scenarios for teaching and evaluating bioethics - developed by Peter A. Singer and Anja Robb at the University of Toronto

Integrated Medical Curriculum - membership includes access to The Doctor's Dilemma: Essentials in Medical Ethics, an online program with 10 interactive case studies provided by the Medical College of Georgia

Canada Bioethics Curricula - The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada provide 10 medical ethics teaching modules each for 1) Medicine, 2) Obstetrics and Gynecology, 3)Psychiatry, and 4) Surgery

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Online Readings and Case Studies in Bioethics - University of Washington Medical School provides a list of online and in-print readings and case studies for a wide array of topics in both medical and research ethics and other areas of bioethics

3 online lectures in bioethics - provided by the Distance Education Program at the Medical College of Wisconsin

GenEthics Consortium Case Literature - prepared by the Office of Genome Ethics at NHGRI.

Scientists and Subjects: A Web-based Seminar on the Ethics of Research with Human Subjects - The Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions, Indiana University. A three-day retreat at Indiana University-Bloomington followed by a 3-4 month seminar delivered via the World Wide Web.

Ethics in Research Focusing on Behavioral Health Services - University of South Florida. A four-day, intensive training course focusing on ethical and legal issues that arise when vulnerable populations, particularly people with severe mental illness, are research participants.

Ethics of Research with Humans: Past, Present, & Future - University of Washington. This one-week course is an intensive introduction to ethical issues in research with humans. It is directed to, and registration is limited to, members and managers of IRB committees, active researchers from any discipline who currently conduct research with human participants, and other research professionals who are significantly involved in designing and executing human research protocols.

Program on Ethical Issues in International Health Research - Harvard School of Public Health. This program is directed to any individual or organization who will fund, approve, conduct, or collaborate in health research, providing an opportunity to explore ethical issues in international health care through lectures, discussions, and case analysis.