Teaching Responsible Conduct Responsibly

Teaching Responsible Conduct Responsiblya

Everyone learns at an early age to pay more attention to what people do than what they say. One of our favorite cartoons is by Edward Argo. It portrays a young child standing in the corner facing the wall and saying to his stuffed animal friend, " The same people who told me the stork brought me are making me stand here for lying. " You can substitute your own favorite example of the discrepanc...

Responsible Conduct of Research

In an article published in the New York Times on Novemer 29, 2006, Nicholas Wade reported on the 2004 and 2005 abrications of the South Korean stem cell researcher Dr. wang Woo-suk that were published in the journal Science. erald Schatten of the University of Pittsburgh was the first uthor of one of the publications even though he had conucted none of the experiments described in the publicati...

Responsibly competent: Teaching, ethics and diversity

Beyond Responsible Conduct: Taking Responsibility for the Responsible Conduct of Others

A unique Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) course was created for Ph.D., M.D., and M.D./Ph.D. postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty at Northwestern University, some of whom had prior RCR training and some of whom did not. The unique feature of the course is its dual focus on learning the core elements of RCR and preparing participants for being responsible for guiding and monitoring RCR b...

Outcomes assessment of role-play scenarios for teaching responsible conduct of research.

We describe the summative assessment of role-play scenarios that we previously developed to teach central topics in the responsible conduct of research (RCR) to graduate students in science and engineering. Interviews with role-play participants, with participants in a case discussion training session, and with untrained students suggested that role-playing might promote a deeper appreciation o...