MMRS "Good Scientific Practice"

The MMRS Online Lecture Series is part of the interdisciplinary curriculum and consists of screencasts of lectures consists of screencasts on various topics related to good scientific practice, accompanied by quiz questions that allow you to test your knowledge. 

Target Group

The online course is open to all doctoral candidates of the medical faculty of the LMU.

  • For doctoral candidates wanting to obtain a structured Dr. med., structured Dr. med. dent., structured Dr. rer. biol. hum., Ph.D. Medical Research in EPH and an individual Ph.D. in Medical Research the participation is mandatory.
  • Doctoral candidates of the PhD in Medical Research receive 0.5 ECTS for their successful participation.

The course can be completed at any time. If you take part before being officially registered with the MMRS, please download the MMRS logbook in advance so your participation can be documented.
Topics & Lecturers

The online course is considered passed when 80% of the topics have been completed. The choice of topics is up to you and your individual interests. Each topic takes approximately 2 hours to complete.

  • Introduction to good scientific practice (Dr. Elizabeth Schröder-Reiter)
  • Plagiarism, Authorship & Publishing (Dr. Antje Hentrich)
  • Open Science & Reproducibility (Prof. Dr. Anne-Laure Boulesteix)
  • Data Management and Laboratory Practice (Prof. Dr. Eva Grill)
  • Research Ethics (Andreas Wolkenstein)
  • Evaluation studies: constructing items for questionnaires (Dr. Johanna Huber, M.P.H.)
  • Basic Statistic (Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Plesnila)
  • How to write a paper (Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Plesnila)
  • Mentorship (Mal)practice and how to be a decent colleague (DDr. Marc Weidenbusch)
  • Mixed Methods studies with examples from health services research (PD Dr. Michaela Schunk)
  • Learning From Others' Failures: How to peer review or increase your own papers quality (Dr. Lukas Käsmann)
  • Advanced Statistic I (Big Data and Omics) (Prof. Dr. Anne-Laure Boulesteix)
  • Advanced Statistic II (regression models) (Prof. Dr. rer. biol. hum. Dipl.-Math. Eva Hoster)
  • Qualitative Methods (PD Dr. Michaela Schunk, Dr. Katja Kühlmeyer, Dr. Michaela Coenen)
Registration 
  1. Select the current Semester-Course in the list below or Search for "MMRS Good Scientific Practice"
  2. Use the course key for your Self-Enrollment / Selbsteinschreibung: MMRS-GSP
  3. Login with you LMU user ID / LMU Benutzerkennung - or - an ID from the TU or another institution within the "DFN-Verbund" *)

 *) Registration without an ID of the LMU or DFN-AAI is not possible without exception. Here you find information, how to get an "LMU Benutzerkennung".


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