Level

Basic

Target audience

Ethicists, legal scholars, policy makers, researchers, embryologists, geneticists, quality managers

Topics included

• Research ethics
  - The basics
  - Risk – benefit analysis
  - Justice, fairness and equity in research – balancing stakeholder concerns
  - Engagement and the role of the researcher
  - Publication ethics and research integrity
  - The declaration on research development
  - Surveillance of scientific research integrity in medically assisted reproduction

• Ethics and embryo research

• Regulation

• Ethics of animal research

• Specific research applications/case studies
  - In utero therapies
  - Uterine transplantation
  - In vitro gametogenesis
  - Gene editing
  - Fertility preservation in children

Level

Basic

Target audience

Ethicists, legal scholars, policy makers, clinic managers, clinicians, nurses, midwives, psychologists, geneticists, researchers, embryologists, patient representatives

Topics included

• Introduction
  - The basics
  
  
• Respect for autonomy and consent in ART treatment
  - Adults
  - Children and adolescents
  
  
• Justice and access to ART
  
  
• Harms, risks and errors in ART
  - Harms and risks to patients
  - The welfare of children conceived through ART
  - Legal implications
  - Trust and disclosure of errors
  
  
• When and whether to refuse treatment
  
  
• Ethics and law in context
  - Pre-natal, pre-implantation and pre-conception screening
  - Mitochondrial replacement therapy
  - Reproductive transplantation (uterus, ovary and penis)
  - Gene editing
  - Gamete donation: donor anonymity
  - Gamete donation: risks to egg donors
  - Donation, sale and exchange of human reproductive materials
  - Cross border reproduction
  - Surrogacy