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Responsible Conduct of Research |
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| Responsible Conduct of Research |
On February 5, 2001, the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) received a Congressional inquiry raising concerns about the "PHS Policy on Instruction in the Responsible Conduct of Research" that was announced on December 1, 2000. In it's response ORI announced that the policy would be suspended while it was under review. A notice of the suspension was posted on the ORI website February 20, 2001 and submitted for publication in the Federal Register. Additional information is available at the following links. | |
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| PHS Policy on Instruction in the Responsible Conduct of Research | ||
| The Public Health Service (PHS) has been addressing for more than a decade recommendations from the research community to further a joint commitment to education in the responsible conduct of research. In 1989, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) stated that "instruction in the standards and ethics of research is essential to the proper education of scientists," and recommended that "[u]niversities...provide formal instruction in good research practices." In that same year, the PHS published misconduct regulations that state that research "[i]nstitutions shall foster a research environment that discourages misconduct in all research and that deals forthrightly with possible misconduct associated with research for which PHS funds have been provided or requested." In 1990, the National Institutes of Health required all applications for National Research Service Award Institutional Training Grants to include a description of a program to provide instruction in the responsible conduct of research. In 1992, the National Academy of Sciences expanded and repeated IOM's earlier recommendation by stating that "[s]cientists and research institutions should integrate into their curricula educational programs that foster faculty and student awareness of concerns related to the integrity of the research process." The Commission on Research Integrity recommended in 1995 that the Department of Health and Human Services add a new assurance "that the institution has an educational program on the responsible conduct of research...[that] applied to all individuals supported by PHS research funds." | ||
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| To view the complete policy please click here (HTML format) | ||
| This page contains an emerging list of Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) instructional resources to assist institutions in developing RCR programs and to facilitate the sharing of resources among institutions. As the list develops, resources will be categorized within the core instructional areas as listed in the RCR Policy, according to which core instructional area is the subject of the instruction. Resources that are applicable to several or all core instructional areas will be listed under the category Comprehensive RCR Resources. Institutions may offer their instructional resources and web address for listing on this page by sending the web address and related information to aousley@osophs.dhhs.gov . If there is a charge for use of your instructional resources; please specify this information in the e-mail. Should the list of resources under certain core instructional areas become extensive, it may be necessary to limit the list of resources. | ||
| Comprehensive RCR Resources | ||
| The Online Resource for Instruction in
RCR A comprehensive web site supported by ORI that contains instructional resources, cases, useful links, instructional tools, and other information for refining existing programs or building new programs that foster the responsible conduct of research. This site also contains an extensive list of instructional programs at other institutions. |
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| SBIR/STTR Resource Development Program | ||
| (Coming Soon). Announcement in the NIH Omnibus Solicitation of SBIR/STTR funds available for educational resource development in RCR. |
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| An Introductory Guide (Coming Soon). A guide that provides an introduction and overview of core topics in the responsible conduct of research. The contents include ten chapters, Introduction, Ethical Decision making, Animal Subjects, Human Subjects, Data Management, Publication and Peer Review, Conflict of Interest, Mentoring, Collaboration, and Making Allegations of Misconduct. Also included are applicable regulations and guidelines, self-test questions, and resources for further study. | ||
| PRIM&R Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research. Educational publications for sale. |
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Last Revised: January, 2008 |
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