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Hubris in Grantland: Languor and Laissez-faire Greet Conflict of Interest at the NIH
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Greenberg, Daniel S. – Academe, 2010
New rules are coming for sanitizing conflicts of interest in research financed by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), dispenser of the government's biggest budget for civilian science, some $31 billion this year. The conflicted need not fear. The draft rules, soon to be made final, continue the NIH's longtime practice of trust but don't…
Descriptors: Conflict of Interest, Researchers, Federal Aid, Case Studies
Organizational Culture, Performance and Career Choices of Ph.D.s: A Case Study of Dutch Medical Researchers
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van der Weijden, Inge; de Gilder, Dick; Groenewegen, Peter; Geerling, Maaike – Higher Education Policy, 2008
Increasing demands for accountability and applicability raise the question of how organizational factors affect researchers' performance and career choices. In a study of Dutch medical Ph.D. student's experiences, organizational culture and climate and attitudes towards research quality are related to performance and career choices. Ph.D.s who…
Descriptors: Organizational Culture, Career Choice, Researchers, Case Studies
Neuroimaging Research with Children: Ethical Issues and Case Scenarios
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Coch, Donna – Journal of Moral Education, 2007
There are few available resources for learning and teaching about ethical issues in neuroimaging research with children, who constitute a special and vulnerable population. Here, a brief review of ethical issues in developmental research, situated within the emerging field of neuroethics, highlights the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Researchers, Educational Research, Biology
Online Mentoring to Induct Junior Researchers into Scientific Literacy Practices
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Singh, Gurmit – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to report results from an evaluation of an online abstract mentoring programme to support early career and less experienced human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) researchers improve their chances of acceptance to International HIV/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Conferences. Design/methodology/approach: An…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Constructivism (Learning), Mentors, Informal Education
Developing a Mentorship Program for Clinical Researchers
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Blixen, Carol E.; Papp, Klara K.; Hull, Alan L.; Rudick, Richard A.; Bramstedt, Katrina A. – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2007
Introduction: In academic health centers, the number of physician investigators and the number of research studies headed by clinicians has been declining. The U.S. Institute of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health suggest improved mentoring is important to reversing these trends. Methods: This is a case study review of the role of…
Descriptors: Clinics, Mentors, Case Studies, Program Implementation
Hedges and Textual Communicative Function in Medical English Written Discourse.
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Salager-Meyer, Francoise – English for Specific Purposes, 1994
A corpus of 15 articles from 5 leading medical journals was used to examine how the communicative purpose of the different rhetorical sections of research papers and case reports in medical English written discourse influences the frequency and category distribution of the modulation devices (hedges) used in each section. (57 references)…
Descriptors: Case Studies, English (Second Language), English for Science and Technology, Foreign Countries