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RESPONSIBLE SCIENCE: Ensuring the Integrity of the Research Process
mentoring relationship. For other discussions on mentorship, see the paper by David Guston in Volume II of this report.
One group convened by the Institute of Medicine has suggested “that the university has a responsibility to ensure that the size of a research unit does not outstrip the mentor's ability to maintain adequate supervision” (IOM, 1989a, p. 85). Others have noted that although it may be desirable to limit the number of trainees assigned to a senior investigator, there is insufficient information at this time to suggest that numbers alone significantly affect the quality of research supervision (IOM, 1989a, p. 33).
