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Postgraduate Essentials

(as part of Research Fundamentals)

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Learning Outcomes

  • To understand the origins, history and culture of RCSI.
  • To develop an appreciation of what constitutes good research practice.
  • To understand laboratory health and safety practices and risk assessment.
  • To appreciate the importance of ethics in research.
  • To understand how to keep laboratory notebooks including adherence to relevant technology transfer stipulations for potential commercialization of research discoveries.
  • To summarise the steps involved in purchasing laboratory consumables.
  • To understand how to conduct patent searches and prepare invention disclosures from research findings.
  • To appreciate the importance of performing calculations accurately.
  • To understand how intellectual property is developed from research discoveries.
  • To appreciate how to critically read and evaluate current research.
  • To draft a literature review according to guidelines and to understand the importance of referencing using established protocols.
  • To understand plagiarism, and how to write and present data creatively.

Schedule

Postgraduate Essentials Schedule

Course Coordinator

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