Requirements
General Training Requirements
Program-Specific Requirements
Responsible Conduct in Research
Reporting Violations or Concerns
For information on how to report an ethical concern or compliance violation, please refer to the Chancellor's Procedures for Reporting Violations or Concerns.
Formal Curriculum
Trainees are mandated to complete a formal curriculum in the responsible conduct of research. Respecting potential time constraints, trainees have been afforded two options for fulfilling the formal curriculum requirement. The first option is to take Ethics and Research Science offered by the School of Medicine’s Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences each Spring (L41 5011). In six 90 minute sessions, students will explore the following ethical issues: student-mentor relationships, allegations of fraud, collaborators´ rights and responsibilities, conflicts of interest, confidentiality, and publications. The second option is to complete an online training module developed by the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching & Learning (CCNMTL) in collaboration with the Columbia University Center for Bioethics and the Columbia University Office for Responsible Conduct of Research and funded by the Office of Research Integrity, Department of Health and Human Services. Trainees must complete six modules covering conflicts of interest, mentoring, responsible authorship and peer review, research misconduct, collaborative science, and data acquisition and management. Upon completion, trainees should email the Training Program Coordinator confirming that either the DBBS course or the online training module have been completed.
Required Readings on Ethics and WU Policy
Grantspersonship
The NIH requires all NRSA trainees to be instructed in the art of grant writing. Mentors and other faculty provide much informal instruction in this area, however, trainees in the Department of Pediatrics are also required to read Grantspersonship: An Instruction Manual and go through the NIH's All About Grants Tutorial.
Lab Management
The NIH requires that all NRSA programs provide training in the skills necessary to manage a lab. In addition to the instruction received by mentors, the Department of Pediatrics requires that trainees read Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientific Management for Postdocs and New Faculty.
Research Subjects
Human Subjects
To complete the University’s Human Subjects Education module, please access the Web AIS website. To log in, you will need your User ID (same as Employee ID) and your password (Default password formula: last two digits of birth year, 1st initial of last name in lower case, and last 4 digits of SS#. If this does not work, please call Systems at 935-5707). When you log in, go to the Human Subjects Education page and complete the CITI education module for members of a Biomedical Research Team.
If you are not reporting the racial/ethnic distribution of the patients with whom you are working on one of your mentor’s grants, then you will need to track that data and report it on the Inclusion Enrollment Report for the training grant’s progress report.
Please notify Mary Heeley of completion of the training module.
Vertebrate Animals
To complete the Animal Studies Committee’s web-based training on “Regulations Governing Animals Used in Laboratory Research,” required of all research personnel handling animals, please go to theDivision of Comparative Medicine website and select: 1) “Training”, 2) “DCM Online Training Modules Required for Access”, and 3) “Next Steps”. Login using your WU ID and select “Regulations Governing Animals Used in Laboratory Research” module (all nine sections must be reviewed).
Please contact the ASC office if you have questions (362-3229) or the DCM training coordinator, Gail Moore (362-3860), if you need assistance with access to the website.
Please notify Mary Heeley once the module has been completed.