About this course

Integrity as a professional competency

This course is designed to discuss the above mentioned matters with researchers in training for PhD. Goal is to develop integrity as a professional competency in relation with personality factors. The central concept of integrity, together with virtues like honesty, courage, reliability, prudence will be discussed in the context codes and rules of conduct. PhD candidates will learn to discuss matters of integrity critically by using those virtues and to determine their proportionality in daily practice. Actual problems will be brought in by the PhD candidates as 'cases' and actual matters from politics and media will be analyzed. Special attention will be given to the relations between scientists, promotores, PhD candidates and postdocs.

Education Courses Scientific Integrity for PhD candidates

About this course

Lately science has been compromised in more than one occasion by issues related to the integrity of researchers and research teams. This course is designed to discuss these matters with researchers in training for PhD.

The 2-days course is held 10 times a year.

This course is mandatory for second year Radboudumc PhD candidates. Priority will be given to PhD candidates who are in their 2nd year. Other PhD's, can be placed on the waiting list by sending an e-mail to Merel Nas.
The study load of this course is 20 hours. We expect full participation. If you cannot attend part of a course day, you should always discuss this in advance with the course coordinators.
The end goal of this course is to support scientists in training for a PhD in their development of the competencies necessary for a responsible innovative researcher in life sciences.