Overview
Date published: July 2012
Core activities: 5 hours
Additional activities: 31.5 hours
This course is designed to help researchers in the biomedical sciences to:
- Know, understand and explain the key responsibilities they have as researchers
- Identify the challenges they could face in meeting those responsibilities
- Be aware of strategies for dealing with pressures and difficult situations.
Syllabus
This course covers all stages of the biomedical sciences research process. Information, practical advice and reflective activities in key areas:
- Module 1: Introduction: principles and professional responsibilities, dealing with misconduct, mentoring
- Module 2: Planning: research with human participants, conflicts of interest, workplace safety
- Module 3: Conducting: data collection, sharing and interpretation
- Module 4: Reporting: plagiarism, authorship, peer review
- Module 5: Responsibility to the public and society.
This course contains 13.5 hours of optional activity content and 18 hours of associated peer-to-peer and tutor-led activities.
Author: Professor Raymond De Vries
Professor, Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School
Reviewer: Dr Karen Melham
Researcher in Ethics, Centre for Health Law and Emerging Technologies (HeLEX), University of Oxford