Research Ethics in Clinical Rehabilitation Sciences

About the Course:
This course is designed to assist participants in familiarizing themselves about the basic concepts of Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) and related topics. The course is grounded in recognition that many research ethics issues are relevant to the practice of scholarly and creative activities spanning the full range of science, engineering, and technology.

The goal of this course is to promote awareness and increase knowledge regarding research ethical issues particularly in the following topics: research misconduct; responsible authorship and publication; conflict of interest; collaboration; issues in electronic medical records; and responsible data management.  These topics were chosen to be the main focus of this course to increase awareness of RCR and how to adhere to these principles when conducting and/or collaborating in medical research. Participants will be introduced to rationales, content, approaches, and resources sufficient so that they will have the means to develop and implement research ethics in their research environment in particular in these three areas and also to encourage a culture of peer sharing of ethical issues and cultural challenges in research.

Objectives:
Upon completion of the workshop, in the context of their particular research environment, participants will be able to:

1. Demonstrate knowledge in addressing and articulating ethical issues and relevant cases related to plagiarism, falsification, and fabrication of data.
2. Identify successfully challenges and list possible solutions related to issues in data management and authorship and publications as well as collaboration and communication within a research team.
3. Recognize the responsible conduct of research guidelines
4. Promote the culture of discussing ethical challenges in research with their peers and colleagues including but not limited to falsification, fabrication, plagiarism, conflict of interest, etc.

Presenters:
Dr. Mohammad Nazzal, PhD:
Dr. Mohammad Nazzal holds a PhD in occupational therapy from the Texas Woman's University and is an American Board certified. He is an associate professor of Occupational Therapy in the department of rehabilitation sciences at JUST.  Dr. Nazzal is the JUST-CRS project coordinator; an Erasmus Plus project co-funded by the EACEA of the European Union in 2016 with a budget of almost a million Euros. Dr. Nazzal served as An assistant Dean and chairman of the Allied Medical Sciences, and later the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences for the last 4 years. Dr. Nazzal led the department to revise all of the department BSc programs in Occupational therapy, physical therapy and Speech & Audiology in 2014. Dr. Nazzal has extensive teaching and research experience and a principle investigator on many projects funded by JUST or the Jordanian Ministry of Higher Education and Research. His research interests include: Occupational participation among people with disabilities in the community, paediatric and neuro-developmental rehabilitation and qualitative research methodologies. Dr. Nazzal has led many national reform committees including setting the standards for higher education programs in occupational therapy, autism, and community-based rehabilitation in Jordan.
msnazzal@just.edu.jo

Dr. Alaa Jaber, PhD:
Dr. Jaber is an assistant professor of occupational therapy at the department of rehabilitation sciences in Jordan University of Science & Technology. His research interests include exploring factors associated with functional improvements following stroke and studying the impact of mild traumatic brain injuries on functional performance of affected individuals.
afjaber@just.edu.jo

Dr. Alaa Oteir, PhD:
Dr Oteir is an Assistant Professor of Paramedicine, Department of Allied Medical Sciences, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, Jordan University of Science and Technology​. Dr. Oteir earned his Paramedicine PhD degree from Monash University, Australia​. He coordinates the management course and provide administrational assistant to the JUST-CRS program.​ Dr Oteir is currently the chairman of the Allied Medical Sciences department at the Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, an adjunct lecturer at the paramedicine department at Monash University and head of department research committee, head of the department and faculty media committee, and head of department scientific committee​. His research interest includes prehospital and emergency, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, emergency staff wellbeing and trauma research as well as research relating to patient outcomes​.

aooteir@just.edu.jo