CENTRE FOR ETHICS

The Centre for Ethics (CFE) at Yenepoya (deemed to be University), Mangalore was established in February 2011. Dr. Vina Vaswani, Professor & Head, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, who had completed her Master's in Bioethics in 2008, as an Erasmus Mundus student, was appointed Director. It was the first ethics-dedicated centre in a medical college in India. The Centre was set up to bring about a reawakening of medical ethics and bioethics in the health care setting, through academic programs, research and cultural exchanges. Supported by an educational research grant (1R25TW010305) from the National Institutes of Health, USA, CFE runs a two-year, full-time Master's in Research Ethics. In addition, the CFE offers two postgraduate diploma courses - one in Bioethics/Medical (PGDBEME) and the other in Clinical Ethics (PGDCE), along with other short courses and student activities in various sub-disciplines of bioethics.
Yenepoya (Deemed to be University) is the first deemed university in the district of Dakshina Kannada (Mangalore) in the south of Karnataka. The Islamic Academy of Education was established in 1991 as an educational trust. The trust proposed the formation of a deemed university in 2008 and the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India recognized Yenepoya (deemed to be University) on 27 February 2008. Yenepoya Medical College, Dental College, Nursing College and Physiotherapy College are constituent colleges of Yenepoya (deemed to be University).