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This course is a series of one-hour meetings that are designed to familiarize students with several issues related to the ethical conduct of scientific research. The students are advised of their societal responsibilities as members of the scientific research community. These include integrity, honesty, objectivity and excellence. This short course in the responsible conduct of research (RCR) will introduce students to major ethical and policy issues in research. Priority will be given to those issues covered in the federal definition of “scientific misconduct” and in the NIH’s model curriculum on RCR. These issues include data fabrication, data falsification and plagiarism; responsible authorship, publication and mentorship practices; conflicts of interest; data management; and the use of human participants.