Training for Scholarships in Research Ethics

描述(由申请人提供)： 该项目将由马拉维大学医学院和密歇根州立大学联合开展。它有两个主要目标。首先是发展马拉维和该地区其他地方的土著学者社区，他们将成为国际研究伦理文献的积极贡献者，就与非洲特别相关的问题发言。第二，制定与研究伦理有关的本土课程，以吸引有才华的非洲学生从事生物伦理的学术生涯。我们将招收已经在大学或机构担任负责职位的学员。学员将拥有相关学科的高级学位，并展示出学术或研究潜力。学员将来到密歇根州立大学，参加针对其核心学科和计划研究领域的高级课程，并将与密歇根州立大学的导师进行匹配。受训人员随后将返回马拉维，在那里，进一步的课程工作将侧重于研究伦理方面的具体问题，由马拉维的学者授课，其中包括一名客座教授，他将提供马拉维大学所需的额外教员能力。学员将在马拉维实施他们的研究项目，在那里由马拉维的一名学者提供建议，并(以电子方式)由他们的密歇根州立大学导师提供建议。在与导师协商后，学员还将制定一项与研究道德问题有关的课程计划，该课程可在学员回国后通过其所在机构提供。在学员的研究项目接近尾声时，密歇根州立大学的导师将前往马拉维，与总部设在马拉维的导师一起工作两周，与学员一起紧张地工作，制定一份适合发表在同行评议期刊上的最终研究报告，并帮助学员敲定计划的课程大纲。学员将收到结业证书，一旦所有课程完成，他们的研究报告已被接受出版，他们成功地教授了他们的课程。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The project will be a joint collaboration between The College of Medicine of the University of Malawi and Michigan State University. It has two primary goals. The first is development of an indigenous community of scholars in Malawi and elsewhere in the region who will become active contributors to the literature of international research ethics, speaking to issues which are of particular relevance for Africa. Second is development of an indigenous curriculum relevant to research ethics which can attract talented African students to an academic career in bioethics. We will recruit trainees who already occupy responsible university or institutional positions. Trainees will hold an advanced degree in a relevant discipline, and show promise of scholarly or research potential. Trainees will come to Michigan State University to take advanced level courses specific to their core discipline and their planned area of research, and will be matched with an MSU mentor. Trainees will then return to Malawi, where further coursework will focus on issues specific to research ethics, taught by Malawi-based scholars, including a visiting professor who will provide the additional faculty capacity needed at the University of Malawi. Trainees will implement their research projects in Malawi, advised there by a Malawi-based scholar, and also (electronically) by their MSU mentor. In consultation with their mentors, trainees will also develop plans for a course related to issues in research ethics that can be offered through the trainee's home institution upon their return. Toward the end of the trainee's research project, the MSU mentor will travel to Malawi to join the Malawi-based mentor for two weeks to work intensively with the trainee to develop a final research report suitable for publication in a peer reviewed journal, and help the trainee finalize the planned course syllabus. Trainees will receive a certificate of completion once all course work is completed, their research report has been accepted for publication, and they have successfully taught their course.