QBS 700 Responsible and Ethical Conduct of Research
QBS 700 is a required course for all Quantitative Biomedical Sciences graduate students as well as Masters of Epidemiology, Health Data Science, and Medical Informatics students. The course consists of five two-hour discussion-based modules that students are expected to prepare for through readings and short assignments.
Part of a campus-wide series that is required of all Dartmouth graduate students, QBS 700 covers issues regarding responsible and ethical conduct in graduate training, in biomedical research, and in industry and academic careers. Topics that will be covered are professionalism, authorship, mentoring, data collection, and rigor and reproducibility as they apply to the training and careers in the fields of bioinformatics, biostatistics, epidemiology, data science, and medical informatics. The current curriculum was developed by the Graduate Studies Office in collaboration with the Ethics Institute at Dartmouth. Over the 5 sessions, instructors will meet with first-year PhD and MS graduate students to facilitate discussions on ethical dilemmas that they may encounter as they advance through their graduate training and beyond. Case studies will be used to provide a framework for discussions on ethical issues spanning the topics described above. This course seeks to coordinate basic training in professional ethics specific to our QBS PhD and Geisel MS students, yet required of all Dartmouth graduate students, as well as provide a foundation for ethical training in the biomedical sciences that is required for NIH-sponsored research.
Instructor
Dr. Kristine Giffin & Dr. John Brand
Prerequisite
N/A