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Lead Facilitator: Jessica Polka, PhD, Director, ASAPbio | Visiting Scholar, Whitehead Institute
The NIH requires anyone sponsored by a training grant, either currently or in the future, to complete Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) training. At HMS, it is mandatory for all postdoctoral fellows to attend regardless of funding source. You must enroll in the course conducted by the Center for Bioethics within Harvard Medical School. We recognize most trainees will have an occasional scheduling conflict, and accordingly, you have up to 2 years to complete the coursework.
Each session will be co-facilitated by the course directors, research faculty, and/or administrative deans. This course is meant to provide an opportunity to openly and critically reflect with your peers and others about what responsibility and integrity should mean to the professional scientific community. It is purposefully not a list of "dos and don'ts". To that end, you will be expected to have done the readings prior to class and you will be expected to participate in discussion.
Please review our website for more information: http://bioethics.hms.harvard.edu/rcr-responsible-conduct-research
If you are not sure if you’ve already attended these sessions, email rcr@hms.harvard.edu with your name, HMS email, and HMS department so we can check your record and let you know. If you can demonstrate completion of RCR training in the past 3 years (via a certificate), you may be relieved from fulfilling this requirement.
