TRAINING IN CLINICAL RESEARCH ETHICS

描述：候选人：这一职业发展奖将允许候选人 将他作为生物医学科学家的重点转移到独立的职业生涯中 研究伦理学领域。拟议的研究计划提供了一个理想的 他的职业发展目标框架，以获得道德方面的专业知识 理论，人类主题研究伦理和政策，以及调查方法。 职业发展活动包括引导性阅读和讨论 在导师的指导下，对选定的课程进行审计，并参与国家 课程、会议和研讨会。环境：职业发展和 研究目标必然是多学科、多机构的。这个 候选人的导师劳伦斯·施奈德曼博士可以贡献大约25% 在伦理理论、社会研究和生物医学伦理方面有多年经验。 候选人的家乡机构也提供了高度支持 行政管理以及具有专业知识和兴趣的教职员工和项目 伦理学、临床研究和社会研究方法。这将是 由来自明尼苏达大学、匹兹堡大学和 华盛顿。研究：需要解决研究伦理问题，特别是 临床研究伦理，是由几个最近的趋势驱动的。两者之间的界限 临床实践和研究越来越不明朗，新技术正在 提出了以前想象不到的困难问题，并报告了违反 指导人类研究的伦理、法律和社会原则 科目继续增加。研究伦理的正式指导似乎是一种 显而易见的解决方案，而且越来越需要。不幸的是，经验数据 很少或根本没有为这种培训的假定好处提供支持。 因此，需要检验的中心假设是：研究伦理 培训对道德决策有积极影响。 具体目标：目标1：确定现有培训方案的特点 这可能会对道德所需的技能和知识产生影响 做决定。目标2：对不同的角色进行试验性评估 产生急性和长期道德变化的培训方法 决策技能和知识。目标3：评估急性和长期影响 在广泛的机构进行道德培训，代表 以下维度：大、中、小；公共和私人；以及 历史上黑人和少数民族的学院和大学。已完成的 拟议的目标将提供有关以下方面的有价值的新信息 研究道德方面的培训；候选人独立性的基础 在应用研究伦理方面的职业；以及所需的经验和知识 让候选人成为他所在机构和研究的资源 社区。

DESCRIPTION: Candidate: This career development award will allow the candidate to shift his focus as a biomedical scientist toward an independent career in the field of research ethics. The proposed research program provides an ideal framework for his career development goals to acquire expertise in ethical theory, human subject research ethics and policy, and survey methodology. Career development activities will consist of guided reading and discussion with the mentor, auditing of selected courses, and participation in national courses, meetings, and workshops. Environment: The career development and research goals are necessarily multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional. The candidate's mentor, Dr. Lawrence Schneiderman, can contribute approximately 25 years of experience in ethical theory, social research, and biomedical ethics. The candidate's home institution also provides a highly supportive administration as well as faculty and programs with expertise and interest in ethics, clinical research, and social research methods. This will be supplemented by consultants from the Universities of Minnesota, Pittsburgh, and Washington. Research: The need to address research ethics, and specifically clinical research ethics, is driven by several recent trends. The lines between clinical practice and research are increasingly unclear, new technologies are raising difficult questions not previously imagined, and reported violations of the ethical, legal, and social principles governing research with human subjects continue to increase. Formal instruction in research ethics seems an obvious solution and is increasingly required. Unfortunately, empirical data have provided little or no support for the presumed benefits of this training. Therefore, the central hypothesis to be tested is that: Research ethics training has a positive impact on ethical decisionmaking. Specific Aims: Aim #1: Define characteristics of existing training programs that might have an impact on the skills and knowledge necessary for ethical decisionmaking. Aim #2: Conduct pilot assessment of the roles of the different training methods in producing acute and long-term changes in ethical decisionmaking skills and knowledge. Aim #3: Assess acute and long-term effects of ethics training at a wide range of institutions representative of the following dimensions: large, medium, and small; public and private; and historically black and minority colleges and universities. Completion of the proposed aims will provide: valuable new information about the effectiveness of training in research ethics; a foundation for the candidate's independent career in applied research ethics; and the experience and knowledge necessary for the candidate to be a resource to his institution and the research community.