%0 Journal Article %T Desenvolvimento da dimens£¿o educacional dos Comit¨ºs de ¨¦tica em Pesquisa (CEPs) %A Silva Barbosa %A Adriana %A Silva de Oliveira Boery %A Rita Narriman %A Nagib Boery %A Eduardo %A Ferrari %A M¨¢rcio Roger %J Acta bioethica %D 2012 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.4067/S1726-569X2012000100007 %X the importance of the educational and consulting nature of ethics of research committees (ercs) highlights the value of research which studies these dimensions in the committees. aims: to analyze how ercs have carried out their educational and consulting role; to learn whether advisors have some training in research ethics; to identify whether researchers had guidance about research ethics in their academic career. this is a quantitative and descriptive study approved by cep/uesb under protocol 134/2009, carried out with 95 informants and analyzed by software sphinx. according to data obtained, nearly 71.5% research participants consider educational and consulting activities carried out by erc infrequent or lacking; 60% participants have some ethical training in their academic career. these data show that ercs need greater institutional support and funding in order to consolidate their educational-consulting dimension. %K research ethics %K ethics committees %K ethical review %K bioethics %K education. %U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1726-569X2012000100007&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en