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Professionalism

Academic & Research Integrity

Professionalism
  • understanding principles, policies, and practices concerning academic integrity, such as honesty, authorship, collaboration, and attribution of credit
  • understanding principles, policies, and practices concerning research ethics, such as promoting truth, minimizing error, human subjects protections, animal care and use, compliance with public health and safety regulations, fairness in intellectual ownership, protection of intellectual property
  • understanding the ethical dimensions, implicit or explicit, of one’s chosen research questions and methodological approaches

Professional Ethics

Professionalism
  • understanding the specific ethical concepts, norms, practices, and codes of your organization, discipline, or profession
  • understanding the ethical issues that professionals typically encounter in the contemporary workplace, such as confidentiality and privacy, conflict of interest, honesty, bias, resource allocation, intellectual property, risk management
  • understanding the ethical foundations and consequences and impacts of one’s work

Critical & Analytical Thinking

Professionalism
  • applying systems thinking to identify and determine the relationships between variables, test hypotheses, and control for confounds
  • drawing logical conclusions based on data, avoiding confirmation bias and other cognitive biases
  • building and presenting arguments based on syntheses of ideas from multiple perspectives
  • using frameworks or sets of standards to evaluate the quality of procedures or solutions

Upcoming Critical & Analytical Thinking Events

Stress Management & Work/Life Balance

Professionalism
  • understanding the dimensions of personal well-being and developing practices to support them
  • managing stress, time, energy, life goals, and implementing healthy strategies for dealing with challenging experiences
  • making professional plans and acting on them, and seeking coaches, mentors, sponsors, and other experts to assist in planning and execution
  • communicating about one’s needs in professional settings

Upcoming Stress Management & Work/Life Balance Events