A successful program includes, as appropriate to the discipline, the following topics:
- Conflict of interest - personal, professional, and financial
- Mentor/mentee responsibilities and relationships
- Collaborative research including collaborations with industry
- Peer review
- Data acquisition and research tools; management, sharing and ownership
- Research misconduct and policies for handling misconduct
- Responsible authorship and publication
- The scholar as a responsible member of society, contemporary ethical issues and the environmental and societal impacts of research in the discipline
- Policies regarding human subjects, live vertebrate animal subjects in research, and safe laboratory practices
Generation of discipline-specific requirements should consider formal mechanisms for training via RCRS coursework/ lecture series/workshops, journal clubs, GRD 500 (as available); laboratory rotations; or other curriculum, as well as less formal training opportunities through faculty meetings; laboratory meetings; faculty/student retreats; departmental research days. Any activity intended to satisfy the RCR training requirement must be supported by appropriate documentation (attendance, topics covered, etc.).