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Accountability in Research
Ethics, Integrity and Policy
Volume 12, 2005 - Issue 3
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Assessing the Educational Literature in the Responsible Conduct of Research for Core Content

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Pages 207-224 | Published online: 23 Aug 2006
 

Abstract

To determine core content for RCR instruction, content analysis was conducted using key instructional resources for ORI's nine RCR “core instructional areas”. Topics discussed in these key RCR resources were identified and their frequency across resources was tabulated. Topics covered most frequently were judged to be core content. Although key educational resources cited a variety of references, specific topics and issues addressed were generally consistent across the materials examined. Nonetheless, key resources varied in organization and depth of coverage for core instructional areas. Recent resources were more systematic and comprehensive than earlier works. This was particularly evident in materials about human participant research, conflicts of interest, and data management and sharing. Key resources presented additional “non-core” issues, such as scientific values, ethical principles, creativity and objectivity, moral reasoning, genetics, epidemiologic issues, and scientists’ societal roles, suggesting that ORI's core instructional areas should be reconfigured or expanded. Because educational material available on RCR and professionalism was so comprehensive, we recommend that ORI consider research integrity, not research misconduct, as one core instructional area. We also recommend that compliance with research regulations be restored as a core instructional area to accentuate ethical, financial and legal requirements related to acceptance of federal funding.

Related material was presented orally at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Practical and Professional Ethics in February 2004, and the ORI Research Conference in Research Integrity in November 2004. This work was supported in part by grant # NS044533 from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and the DHHS Office of Research Integrity.

Notes

Related material was presented orally at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Practical and Professional Ethics in February 2004, and the ORI Research Conference in Research Integrity in November 2004. This work was supported in part by grant # NS044533 from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and the DHHS Office of Research Integrity.

The policy was later withdrawn, but the text is still accessible at ORI's web site (www.ori.dhhs.org).

Since we completed our initial analysis of the educational literature, at least two additional books on standards of research have been published (CitationHoward Hughes Medical Foundation, 2004; CitationMoyé 2004). We will likely add these works’ material to the EndNote database and content analysis in the future.

The order of subjects in the tables tends to follow the organization of topics and issues as presented in the texts.

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