Sharmella Roopchand Martin, Bernardo García Camino, Paul J Cummins, Cheryl C Macpherson
{"title":"A low-cost approach to high quality responsible conduct of research education.","authors":"Sharmella Roopchand Martin, Bernardo García Camino, Paul J Cummins, Cheryl C Macpherson","doi":"10.1007/s40889-026-00235-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40889-026-00235-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The need for high-quality, accessible training in responsible conduct of research (RCR) globally is evident in the annual increase in paper retractions for scientific misconduct. This paper describes an RCR course that we developed as part of a master's in bioethics degree (MScB) program available to a culturally and linguistically diverse group of scientists, clinicians, and other research stakeholders from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The course has been delivered fully online simultaneously in English and Spanish using instructional materials informed by the perspectives of two culturally diverse co-teaching faculty members. In addition to aiming to educate learners and inspire them to conduct research responsibly and motivate others to do so, the pedagogical and technical design of the course is intentionally structured to strengthen fellows' critical thinking, deepen their understanding of regional and international research ethics guidance, and promote collaboration between Spanish- and English-speaking participants. The RCR course has earned Quality Matters certification, reflecting its commitment to high-quality online pedagogy, whilst containing cost. In this paper, we outline the course's structure and core design elements to offer a model that can be adapted for other RCR programs across diverse countries and cultural contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":29894,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Ethics Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12990914/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147475386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The best physician is also a philosopher: Reviving Islamic philosophical ethics in Saudi Arabian medical schools","authors":"Ruaim A. Muaygil","doi":"10.1007/s40889-025-00224-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40889-025-00224-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29894,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Ethics Education","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147382139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploration of ethics, good, and unethical acts","authors":"Ahmet Göçen","doi":"10.1007/s40889-023-00180-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40889-023-00180-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29894,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Ethics Education","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139149472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"(Mis)representations of Kant’s moral theory in applied ethics textbooks: emphasis on universalizability, absence of autonomy","authors":"Louai Rahal","doi":"10.1007/s40889-023-00182-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40889-023-00182-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29894,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Ethics Education","volume":"53 13","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138952394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"12th International conference on ethics education","authors":"Henk ten Have","doi":"10.1007/s40889-023-00178-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40889-023-00178-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29894,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Ethics Education","volume":"63 14","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138587342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why we should (not) worry about generative AI in medical ethics teaching","authors":"Seppe Segers","doi":"10.1007/s40889-023-00179-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40889-023-00179-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29894,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Ethics Education","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135969890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ethics, aesthetics, and moral imagination","authors":"Henk ten Have","doi":"10.1007/s40889-023-00177-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40889-023-00177-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29894,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Ethics Education","volume":"176 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136294642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contemplating the principles of the UNESCO declaration on bioethics and human rights: a bioaesthetic experience","authors":"Francisco J. Bueno Pimenta, Alberto García Gómez","doi":"10.1007/s40889-023-00176-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40889-023-00176-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29894,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Ethics Education","volume":"206 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135302444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vulnerability and the Covid-19 pandemic: educating to a new notion of health","authors":"Sabina Girotto","doi":"10.1007/s40889-023-00175-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40889-023-00175-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29894,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Ethics Education","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89373163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lieke Van Stekelenburg, Chris M. R. Smerecnik, W. Sanderse, D. D. de Ruyter
{"title":"Correction to: How do students use their ethical compasses during internship? An empirical study among students of universities of applied sciences","authors":"Lieke Van Stekelenburg, Chris M. R. Smerecnik, W. Sanderse, D. D. de Ruyter","doi":"10.1007/s40889-023-00174-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40889-023-00174-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29894,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Ethics Education","volume":"58 1","pages":"241 - 242"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88499053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}