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3 Ethics Education in Science and Engineering
Pages 11-16

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... Some attendees pointed out that most graduate students and postdoctoral fellows currently learn research practices primarily through ad hoc, informal exposures in their individual laboratories, rather than through formal training. These ad hoc approaches are unlikely to be effective, they said, and therefore the expectations of ethical conduct and beneficial outcomes on the part of professional societies, employers, government funding agencies, and the public are unlikely to be met.
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... Understanding the complexities encourages an ethics perspective that goes beyond compliance toward ethical ideals. Materials submitted by Huff and workshop participant Stephanie Bird, an independent consultant in research ethics and leader of the lunchtime discussion of the ethics scenario, identified skills and knowledge that should be developed in ethics education.
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... CHARACTERISTICS OF EFFECTIVE Ethics Education Workshop participants noted that NSF, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) , and the Office of Research Integrity all fund projects in research ethics.
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... Faculty members may not believe the programs are needed; students may be faced with inconsistencies between formal ethics training and lab cultures and investigators' priorities; faculty may lack expertise or feel uncomfortable about teaching ethics; institutions may lack resources to support ethics activities; and instructional methods must be appropriate for the target audience. In addition, several participants pointed out, in presentations and discussions, that working with graduate students and postdoctoral f ­ ellows from other countries raises particular questions: whether students from other countries understand the content of ethics training; how teachers can learn from and accommodate students from different backgrounds; and how diversity among graduate students and post­ doctoral fellows can improve learning opportunities and outcomes.
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... First, they recommended they would have approached looking beyond classroom learning the solution to that case and individual conduct to broad example. programs that teach the importance Paul Citron, of integrity by stressing shared Medtronic (retired)
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