(as part of Research Fundamentals)
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
SPGS