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Teaching Research Integrity and Bioethics to Science Undergraduates

Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL 36688

Address correspondence to: Julio F. Turrens (jturrens{at}usouthal.edu).

Undergraduate students in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University of South Alabama, Mobile, are required to take a course entitled "Issues in Biomedical Sciences," designed to increase students' awareness about bioethical questions and issues concerning research integrity. This paper describes the main features of this course and summarizes the results of a survey designed to evaluate the students' perceptions about the course. A summary of this study was presented at the 2002 Conference on Research Integrity in Potomac, MD, sponsored by the Office of Research Integrity of the National Institutes of Health.

Key Words: bioethics • research integrity • undergraduate education