Promoting Responsible Conduct in Research through 'Survival Skills' Workshops: Some Mentoring Is Best Done in a Crowd

This article describes a "survival skills" course that has been developed to help introduce graduate students. The course introduces students to key skills such as writing research articles, making oral presentations, obtaining employment and funding, supervising, and teaching, It also introduces them to ethical issues that arise in professional life not often covered in traditional ethics courses. The article describes the main goals of the course, how the course is conducted, and assessment methods used to evaluate its effectiveness.