The UMECIT Research Bioethics Committee is accredited by the CNBI
After hard, exhaustive and responsible work by the Research Bioethics Committee of the Metropolitan University of Education, Science and Technology - UMECIT - on June 23, it delivered its report on procedures and processes to the National Bioethics Committee of the Investigation -CNBI- with the purpose of obtaining its reaccreditation certification.
This is how, after a review by the evaluating entity, it was determined, at its regular meeting on Tuesday, June 28, 2022, that the Research Bioethics Committee of our House of Studies had the necessary merits for its certification. was approved for 1 more year.
UMECIT celebrates this recognition to the Research Bioethics Committee of our institution, which will allow it to evaluate clinical studies, approve or reject, monitor and supervise the studies received at the institution for evaluation.
Objectives of the Bioethics Committee
The objective of the UMECIT Research Bioethics Committee is to ensure the application of ethical standards in research in accordance with the dignity of human beings, as provided in national and international codes. In addition, it includes among its functions to identify and evaluate the risks and benefits of the research, as well as the process and materials that will be used to obtain the informed consent of those who participate in the operational phases of protocols or research reports and evaluate the scientific validity of the research. study design and the suitability of the research team, under the faithful compliance of an institutional criterion of a socially responsible university.
Additionally, it ensures the ethical and legal review of all research products that arise from the various academic spaces of the university. The Research Bioethics Committee acts as the body that contributes, together with the Institutional Research Committee, the policies of the research exercise in the spaces of the UMECIT, with the following objectives:
Ensure that the research benefits not only the people involved but also society as a whole, in accordance with an integral epistemological concept articulated to the cyber-humanist curricular educational model of the university.
Contribute to safeguarding the dignity, rights, safety and well-being of participants in biomedical research, including special attention to studies involving vulnerable subjects (children, adolescents, older adults, indigenous people, among others).
Provide an independent, competent and timely evaluation of the ethics of the proposed studies.