Experience of a Research Ethics Committee, in Degree Thesis of Medical Specialists
Abstract:
Introduction: Resident physicians neglect research in their training; the observations of Research Ethics Committees (CEI) and Research (CI) to their research projects are received with annoyance and anger by researchers and advisors; this project will allow the design of an educational strategy; Objectives: 1) Conduct a situational diagnosis: projects reviewed. Period 2014 – 2019. 2) Explore organizational culture at the host hospital.
Materials and Methods: Observational, analytical, retrospective, mixed type: total of projects evaluated 2014- 2019 with variables: scientific validity, social relevance, risk-benefit and use of public resources. Qualitative study: one focus group; categories of analysis: organizational culture, public policies, gender perspective, gender violence and institutional violence.
Results: 42% of the projects had insufficient arguments for the research problem, for example: evaluation of treatments and diagnostic methods already known and validated; 26% recommendations for plagiarism; 19.30% were questioned for excessive and unjustified use of hospital resources; 9.6% for lack of benefits. The focus group provided information: organizational culture, gender and institutional violence prevalent in the hospital context that hinder scientific and humanistic research and the development of resident doctors and the functioning of RECs and ICs.
Conclusions: There is a lack of knowledge of ethical and methodological criteria among students, tutors and reviewers, which is enhanced by the hospital culture, institutional and gender violence, where the paradigm of hegemonic knowledge of specialist doctors prevails. This study seeks to raise awareness of the difficulties of organizational culture that affect the quality of research projects
