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This paper describes the first three-year experience of the Consortium Ethics Program (CEP-1) of the University of Pittsburgh Center for Medical Ethics, and also outlines plans for the second three-year phase (CEP-2) of this experiment in continuing ethics education. In existence since 1990, the CEP has the primary goal of creating a cost-effective, permanent ethics resource network, by utilizing the educational resources of a university bioethics center and the practical expertise of a regional hospital council. The CEP's conception and specific components stem from recognition of the need to make each hospital a major focus of educational efforts, and to provide academic support for the in-house activities of the representatives from each institution.
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Pinkus, R.L., Aumann, G.M., Kuczewski, M.G. et al. The Consortium Ethics Program: An approach to establishing a permanent regional ethics network. HEC Forum 7, 13–32 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01463358
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01463358