Responsibilities and Ethics

Subject CLRS90013 (2011)

Note: This is an archived Handbook entry from 2011.

Credit Points: 12.50
Level: 9 (Graduate/Postgraduate)
Dates & Locations:

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2011:

Semester 1, Hawthorn - Taught on campus.
Pre-teaching Period Start not applicable
Teaching Period not applicable
Assessment Period End not applicable
Last date to Self-Enrol not applicable
Census Date not applicable
Last date to Withdraw without fail not applicable

Semester 2, Hawthorn - Taught on campus.
Pre-teaching Period Start not applicable
Teaching Period not applicable
Assessment Period End not applicable
Last date to Self-Enrol not applicable
Census Date not applicable
Last date to Withdraw without fail not applicable

Intensive Mode

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Time Commitment: Contact Hours: 24 hours of lectures/seminars/workshops
Total Time Commitment: Students should expect to undertake a minimum of 120 hours lectures, research, reading, writing etc. to complete this subject successfully.
Prerequisites: nil
Corequisites: nil
Recommended Background Knowledge: nil
Non Allowed Subjects:

nil

Core Participation Requirements: For the purposes of considering requests for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Students Experiencing Academic Disadvantage Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Description, Subject Objectives, Generic Skills and Assessment Requirements of this entry.
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Contact

Melbourne Consulting and Custom Programs

Level 3, 442 Auburn Rd

Hawthorn VIC 3122

Phone: 9810 3300

email: clinicalresearch@mccp.unimelb.edu.au

Subject Overview: Topics covered include:

Structure of Informed Consent documents
Meaning of Informed in the context of blinding and randomisation to allocated treatments.
Basic human rights in experimental settings
The human being as an experimental subject and unit of analysis
Data monitoring and safety committees
Exercises in complex ethical situations
Ethics committees structure; membership; terms of reference
Assessment of ethics applications (mock exercise)
Cultural differences in ethical viewpoints
Ethics under adverse conditions or under duress
Ethical responses to unlawful collection of data or specimens
Ethical issues of individual or volunteered experiments on the dying
Objectives: Students who successfully complete this subject will be able to:
Demonstrate an sound understanding of the basic concepts in human ethics, including the principles of
Autonomy
Justice
Beneficence
Malfeasance
Understand the need for integrity in both research and researchers
Understand the need to protect human rights in research
Appreciate the requirement for informed consent
Appreciate both sides of the risk-benefit tension
Understand the impact of different cultural perspectives on ethical issues
Assessment: Two assignments each of 2000 words (100%). Students will review an ethics proposal, identifying major concerns and problems within that proposal. Students will prepare an ethics application for a project within their workplace or other appropriate setting, detailing all major ethical issues that arise and their management.
Prescribed Texts: nil
Recommended Texts: Students will be provided with articles and references that support the teaching program as part of their course materials
Breadth Options:

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

Fees Information: Subject EFTSL, Level, Discipline & Census Date
Generic Skills: Students who successfully complete this subject will be able to:

Demonstrate an sound understanding of the basic concepts in human ethics, including the principles of:
- Autonomy
- Justice
- Beneficence
- Malfeasance
Understand the need for integrity in both research and researchers
Understand the need to protect human rights in research
Appreciate the requirement for informed consent
Appreciate both sides of the risk-benefit tension
Understand the impact of different cultural perspectives on ethical issues
Links to further information: http://www.mccp.unimelb.edu.au/courses/award-courses/graduate-certificate/clinical-research
Related Course(s): Graduate Certificate in Clinical Research
Graduate Diploma in Clinical Research
Master of Clinical Research
Professional Certificate in Clinical Research

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