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RCR opprotunities
Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR)
Opportunities Abound for Promoting RCR Education
Numerous opportunities exist within colleges, universities, medical schools, and research institutes to promote responsible conduct of research education through activities that already routinely happen in those organizations, according to Julie Simpson, Manager, Research Conduct and Compliance Services, University of New Hampshire, enumerated those opportunities as follows:
Research methods courses
Departmental faculty meetings
Training sessions offered by Institutional Review Boards, Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees, and Institutional Biosafety Committees
Experiential research programs for graduate and undergraduate students
Orientation sessions for new faculty, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and graduate assistants
Training sessions for new department chairs
Meetings or luncheons for new faculty hosted by university officials
Departmental activities such as dissertation groups, seminar series, journal clubs
Institution-wide lecture or discussion series
Professional development programming offered by the graduate school
Activities sponsored by graduate student and postdoc organizations
Feature articles on RCR issues in the campus newspaper and organizational web sites
Collaboration with graduate program coordinators to promote RCR training
Communications between the chief research officer and the campus community
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