RESPONSIBLE CONDUCT IN RESEARCH: RESEARCH ETHICS, RIGOR, REPRODUCIBILITY AND TRANSPARENCY
Meets the NIH Institutional Training Grant requirements covering all ten of targeted areas in biomedical research. Subject matter incorporates the following topics for instruction: 1) Conflict of interest - personal, professional, and financial; 2) Policies regarding human subjects, and rigor and reproducibility in clinical research; 3) Policies regarding live vertebrate animal subjects, rigor and reproducibility and transparency in pre-clinical research, and safe laboratory practices; 4) Mentor and mentee responsibilities and relationships; 5) Collaborative research including collaborations with industry; 6) Peer review; 7) Data acquisition and laboratory tools (management, sharing and ownership); 8) Research misconduct and policies for handling misconduct; 9) Responsible authorship and publication; 10) The scientist as a responsible member of society, contemporary ethical issues in biomedical research, and the environmental and societal impacts of scientific research.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate proficiency in the Federal, State of Wisconsin, and UW-Madison rules and regulations relevant to the performance of research in the sciences. Audience: Graduate 2. Explain practices and approaches that can enhance the rigor and reproducibility of their work. Audience: Graduate 3. Demonstrate problem-solving strategies and how to respond properly after witnessing research misconduct. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate proficiency in the Federal, State of Wisconsin, and UW-Madison rules and regulations relevant to the performance of research in the sciences. Audience: Graduate 2. Explain practices and approaches that can enhance the rigor and reproducibility of their work. Audience: Graduate 3. Demonstrate problem-solving strategies and how to respond properly after witnessing research misconduct. Audience: Graduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027