The Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS) is an international nongovernmental organization established jointly by WHO and UNESCO in 1949.
CIOMS serves the scientific interests of the international biomedical community in general and has been active in promulgating guidelines for the ethical conduct of research, among other activities. CIOMS promulgated guidelines in 1993 entitled International Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research Involving Human Subjects. These 15 guidelines address issues including informed consent, standards for external review, recruitment of participants, and more. The Guidelines are general instructions and principles of ethical biomedical research.
CIOMS I: International Reporting of Adverse Drug Reactions (1990)CIOMS II: International Reporting of Periodic Drug-Safety Update Summaries (1992)CIOMS III: Guidelines for Preparing Core Clinical-Safety Information on Drugs (1999)CIOMS IV: Benefit-Risk Balance for Marketed Drugs:Evaluating Safety Signals (1998)CIOMS V: Current Challenges in Pharmacovigilance: Pragmatic Approaches (2001)CIOMS VI: Management of Safety Information from Clinical Trials (2005)CIOMS VII: Development Safety Update Report (DSUR) (2006)CIOMS VIII: CIOMS Working Group on Signal Detection (2006)CIOMS IX: Practical Approaches to Risk Minimisation for Medicinal Products (2010)World Allergy OrganizationInternational College of AngiologyInternational Society of AudiologyInternational Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology (IUPHAR)International Association of BioethicsInternational Society of Internal MedicineInternational Federation of Otorhinolaryngological SocietiesWorld Association of Societies of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (WASPaLM)International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE)International Society of Pharmacovigilance (ISOP)World Psychiatric AssociationInternational Rhinologic SocietyMedical Women's International AssociationWorld Medical AssociationBelgium Comité des Académies Royales de MédecineBulgaria Union of the Scientific Medical Societies of BulgariaCzech Republic Czech Medical AssociationGermany Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in GermanyIsrael The Israel Academy of Sciences and HumanitiesRepublic of Korea Korean Academy of Medical SciencesKuwait Islamic Organization for Medical Sciences (IOMS)Netherlands Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and SciencesNorway The Research Council for Norway/The National Committee for Medical Research EthicsSouth Africa South African Medical Research CouncilSwitzerland Swiss Academy of Medical SciencesMedical Sciences Society (MSS-UQ) of Queensland University, HaitiAmerican Society for Bioethics and HumanitiesConsulta di BioeticaWorld Federation of ChiropracticInternational Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory MedicineWorld Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA)Good Clinical Practice - AllianceInternational Council for Laboratory Animal Science (ICLAS)International Society of Hepatic Encephalopathies & Nitrogen Metabolisim (ISHEN)The World Association for Medical LawInternational Union of Microbiological SocietiesAsia Pacific Academy of OphthalmologyInternational Union of Physiological SciencesFederation of Polish Medical Organizations AbroadFederation of Polish Medical SocietiesInternational Medical Sciences AcademyNational Fund for Scientific Research (NSFR)International Federation of Medical Students' AssociationsSaudi Neonatology SocietyThe International Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research Involving Human Subjects, sometimes informally referred to as CIOMS Guidelines, is a set of ethical principles regarding human experimentation created in 1993 by CIOMS and updated in 2002. These 21 guidelines (15 in the original report) address issues including Informed consent, standards for external review, recruitment of participants, and more. The Guidelines are general instructions and principles of ethical biomedical research.
The Council has also issued International Guiding Principles for Biomedical Research Involving Animals.
