Ethical guidelines
Ethical guidelines
MDSC follows the ethical guidelines of several global and esteemed organisation such as COPE, WHO, ICMJE and it is in a parallel with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration.
- If you are submitting an abstract from a published article, kindly rephrase your published abstract to avoid self-plagiarism.
- If your materials have been presented in other conferences, kindly be aware that it is not accepted unless you are presenting different data, different modes of presentations, and different interpretations regardless of the same submitted abstract if the initial conference does not provide conference proceedings publication.
- A statement concerning the ethical approval of the study, including the date it was obtained and the names of the committee and organisation that awarded it, must be included in every study involving human or animal participants.
- Animal and human trials must adhere to the 1964 Helsinki Declaration as well as the national and institutional responsible committee on human experimentation’s ethical guidelines. If there is any uncertainty as to whether the research complied with the Declaration of Helsinki, the authors must justify their method and show that the study’s questionable components were expressly approved by the institutional review board.
- Patients’ right to privacy should not be violated without their knowledge or consent. Unless the material is necessary for scientific research and the patient (or guardian) has provided written informed consent for presentaion in the conference or publishing. This necessitates showing the paper to a patient who can be identified prior to publication. For example, in genetic pedigrees, identifiable traits can be changed to safeguard anonymity. Authors should guarantee that any changes do not alter the scientific interpretation of the data, and editors should take note of this. Informed consent should be sought and documented in the manuscript.
- If your participants are not able to consent, a rightful guardian should consent on behalf of him/her otherwise and should be excluded.
- Your data as a participant will be treated with extreme confidentiality. All information about a submitted abstract is kept confidential by the editors and the central committee and is only shared with individuals involved in the evaluation, review and publication process. The names of the manuscript authors and their affiliations are known only to the Editor-in-Chief.
- Speaker Certificate issuance: It is the authors responsibility to declare the authorship status to the conference committee. If no declaration is communicated by the authors, the committee will provide certificate for the first author name only. In case of the two first authors in the sequence of the authorship is declared as “both or all contributed as first author” then the committee will provide certificate for more than one author.
- Attandance Certificate: Provided for all despite of the declaration provided or not, all attendees get to receive a certificate of attendance with CPD point based on the accreditation body.