The ethics committee is composed of 5 members bound by an obligation of confidentiality, independence, and impartiality. It serves as the ethics advisor, competent to answer, confidentially, questions relating to situations that may be brought to its attention by any employee of the Caen Normandy University Hospital, regardless of their status, in order to provide an opinion on compliance with ethical obligations and principles.
The ethics committee is also competent to issue opinions and formulate recommendations on general matters relating to the application of ethics within the institution, at the request of the institution's director general, the chair of the medical board and/or the dean of the Faculty of Health. It may also initiate its own investigations.
The college may be called upon, in particular, in the following areas: dignity, impartiality, integrity, probity, equality, secularism, neutrality and professional secrecy, or situations related to an ancillary activity…
