Week 4: Practical Applications in Reporting and Peer Review
Format:
This session will involve discussions about a set of short case scenarios. The class will be divided
into small groups for the initial discussions of the cases. Groups will be brought back together at the
end to review and summarize the issues discussed in each group.
Objectives (students will be able to):
1. Explain how ethical issues arise around conventions of authorship: for example, the order of
listing of the authors and who to include (and exclude) as an author on a publication;
2. Explain the conflicts of interest that can arise from the peer review system;
3. Describe the responsibilities of reviewers of publications and grants;
4. Describe relative merits and failings of alternative systems of evaluation (i.e., non-peer review).