Full course description
The University of Maryland, College Park ("UMD") Office of Integrity and Responsible Conduct ("OIRC") has created an institutional-level Integrity and Responsible Conduct Program (“IRC@UMD”) that offers programming, resources, and support to the UMD community. The goals of OIRC’s IRC@UMD program are to foster, promote, and ensure integrity and responsible conduct in research (“IRC-R”) and professional activities (“IRC-PA”) at UMD.
IRC@UMD's IRC-R* programming, including this course and the other courses available to you in the Integrity and Responsible Conduct Open Learning catalog, is intended to:
- broadly foster a culture of research integrity by aiding our research community in understanding the expectations for conducting all aspects of their research responsibly;
- provide a foundation for acting in accordance with those expectations by offering guidance, best practices, and tools;
- help researchers generate and disseminate research and knowledge with integrity and rigor;
- ensure appropriate stewardship of funds that support our important work; and
- help our researchers fulfill related training requirements (including those set forth by funding agencies that support our work).
* UMD has chosen to use the term “integrity and responsible conduct in research” (“IRC-R”), rather than RCR/RECR, as a constant reminder of the inherent link between research integrity and the practice of conducting research responsibly.
This course, offered as part of IRC@UMD's IRC-R programming, was designed to:
- Introduce the general concept of mentorship and its specific application in the research setting;
- Explain how appropriate mentorship practices support research integrity;
- Provide an overview of common responsibilities for mentors and mentees;
- Offer guidance on best practices related to mentor/mentee relationships;
- Provide you with resources, tools, and references to facilitate your engagement in those practices.
This course is for UMD Users Only.