Is participation in Dartmouth Colleges Research Compliance Program voluntary or mandatory?
In 1989, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) introduced a requirement that institutions provide a program of instruction in the responsible conduct of research. This requirement was announced in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts on December 22, 1989 (Vol. 18, No. 45), and again on August 17, 1990 (Vol. 19, No. 30). In 1992, this was expanded to require that all fellows on NIH training grants should receive instruction in the responsible conduct of research. The requirement can be found in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts (Volume 21, Number 43) On December 1, 2000, the Office of Research Integrity announced a new “PHS Policy on Instruction in the Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR)”.
