STP Professional Practice & Ethics 4

Question 1

Which of the following is a key responsibility of a Good Clinical Practice (GCP)-trained investigator?

Accepted Answer

Protecting the rights, safety, and wellbeing of trial participants

Answer

GCP principles place paramount importance on protecting participant rights, safety, and wellbeing throughout the trial.

Question 2

A healthcare scientist suspects a medical device they use is causing patient harm. Under UK regulations, they should:

Accepted Answer

Report it through the MHRA Yellow Card scheme and their institution's incident reporting system

Answer

Adverse incidents involving medical devices must be reported to the MHRA and through internal incident reporting to protect patient safety.

Question 3

What is 'equipoise' in the context of a randomised controlled trial?

Accepted Answer

Genuine uncertainty about which treatment arm is superior, justifying randomisation

Answer

Clinical equipoise means there is genuine uncertainty in the expert medical community about the comparative merits of interventions, making randomisation ethically justified.

Question 4

In the context of STP professional registration, which body grants HCPC registration to healthcare scientists in the UK?

Accepted Answer

The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)

Answer

The HCPC is the statutory regulator that grants and maintains registration for healthcare scientists, including those completing the STP.

Question 5

A laboratory scientist obtains results that do not support the hypothesis favoured by the research team. What should they do?

Accepted Answer

Report the results accurately regardless of their alignment with the hypothesis

Answer

Scientific integrity requires reporting all results accurately; selective reporting constitutes publication bias and potentially research misconduct.

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STP Professional Practice & Ethics 4