Table 3.

Characteristics of ethics committees

	Medical School
Characteristics	Mean ± SD	Range
Total members	10.4 ± 2.6	6–22
External members (outside of medical school but within same college/university)	1.3 ± 1.3	0–6
External members (outside of same college/university)	1.4 ± 1.1	0–5
Female members	0.6 ± 0.9	0–6
Discipline of EC members
Basic medicine	2.7 ± 1.1	1–8
Clinical medicine	4.0 ± 1.6	1–8
Other medicine	0.7 ± 1.1	0–4
Nursing	0.3 ± 0.6	0–3
Other healthcare field	0.1 ± 0.4	0–3
Law	1.0 ± 0.6	0–3
Philosophy/Ethics	0.5 ± 0.6	0–3
Other Humanities and/or Social Sciences	0.4 ± 0.7	0–3
Administrative	0.2 ± 0.6	0–4
Other	0.5 ± 0.9	0–4