Spring 2027

Advanced Responsible Conduct of Research for Biomedical Students

Advanced Responsible Conduct of Research for Biomedical Students meets NIH ITG requirements by providing further instruction in nine areas, including ethics, data management, and misconduct, with focus on implementation in grant documents.

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Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Ian Bird

Summary

What you’ll be able to do

  • Be knowledgeable of the ethics and philosophies that shape our understandings of the responsible conduct of biomedical research

  • Understand and utilize some best practices in the responsible conduct of biomedical research

  • Be aware of mechanisms and processes available to UW-Madison graduate students to help ensure the practice of the responsible conduct of biomedical research

  • Obtain a more comprehensive understanding of the responsibilities, requirements, monitoring, and reassurances involved in successful contemporary biomedical scientific research and how they are used in planning for or applying for grant support, as well as in reporting the progress made in grant-funded studies

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OBS&GYN 955,PHARMACY 800,NURSING 802, or COMP BIO/​PATH-BIO 812(or SURG SCI 812 prior to Spring 2025)

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IAN BIRD is recorded teaching in Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Student experience

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Meets the NIH Institutional Training Grant requirements of repeat/further instruction in the nine recommended areas (1) conflict of interest - personal, professional, and financial; (2) policies regarding human subjects, live vertebrate animal subjects in research, and safe laboratory practices; (3) mentor/mentee responsibilities and relationships; (4) collaborative research including collaborations with industry; (5) peer review; (6) data acquisition and laboratory tools, and management, sharing and ownership; (7) research misconduct and policies for handling misconduct; (8) responsible authorship and publication; (9) the scientist as a responsible member of society, contemporary ethical issues in biomedical research, and the environmental and societal impacts of scientific research. Provides advanced consideration of these topics and illustrates how to implement these responsible conduct and ethical considerations into actual grant- and career-related documents.

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Topics

  • Conflict of interest and policies regarding human/animal subjects and safe lab practices.
  • Mentor/mentee relationships, collaborative research with industry, and peer review.
  • Data acquisition, management, sharing, ownership, and research misconduct policies.
  • Responsible authorship, publication, and societal/environmental impacts of scientific research.

Skills

  • Implementing responsible conduct and ethical considerations into grant- and career-related documents; utilizing best practices in RCR.

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OBS&GYN 956 · Spring 2027

Advanced Responsible Conduct of Research for Biomedical Students

Recorded 2026-10-14
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