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In 1996, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada proposed a competency-based framework describing the core competencies of specialist physicians, one of which was a scholar. 1 The UK General Medical Council has since provided advice on developing teachers and trainers in undergraduate medical education. 2 However, guidance about how to most effectively incorporate this advice into the medical curriculum remains unclear.

Everyone within medical education and academia has a role and responsibility to play in promoting a healthy and positive research culture that is conducive to the training of young scientists and doctors. 3 It is imperative for students to learn how irresponsible research practice may hinder scientific progress4 or cause undue harm to society at large such as the well-publicized, and now disproved and discredited, case of a purported link between autism and the …