Hi, Mary, the IRB training and IRB adminstration issues at predominantly undergraduate institutions would make an excellent session for one of our professional organizations. Not that the training issues are not a universal concern, but it occurs to me that the challenges of education and training at smaller institutions or institutions with primarily social/behavioral research projects are frequently overshadowed by the case studies, examples, etc. from the context of biomedical research. Naturally, the regulations are applied to all human subjects research, regardless of whether it is biomedical or social research. But I believe there is an opportunity to assist smaller institutions with understanding and implementing changes which have occurred recently. Molly Daniel Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Systems Mattoon, IL -----Original Message----- From: Mary Watson [mailto:xxxxxx@VALDOSTA.EDU] Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 14:24 To: xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG Subject: Re: [RESADM-L] Help - IRB Training Thanks, Barb. I think your approach is the best. It does seem we should have something out there but if not - what we can access through NIH and OHRP is probably sufficient. I have both of these sites and have used them BUT I have not taken the time or made the effort to pull out relevant pieces and use them as training materials and handouts to researchers. I am setting up a series of workshps over the fall semester - thus all the questions! I think I will use your good advice and make handouts that are relevant to VSU from the materials available. Thanks again. Mary At 02:48 PM 8/29/2001 -0400, you wrote: >Mary, > >The DHHS/OHRP site where you can register your IRB an get your Federalwide >assurance (thus doing away with the old SPA) has a required on-line web >tutorial for the IRB Chair and the IRB administrator. It is perfectly >appropriate for all IRB members for educational purposes. Our IRB evaluated >several on-line training tools for faculty and liked the NIH one best >(http://cme.nci.nih.gov) because it is the most generic. Between these two >tutorials, your IRB members should get a pretty good overview of the ethical >priciples, the regs, and their responsibilities. > >We also give our IRB members copies of excerpts from the Guidebook. We don't >burden them with the sections that don't apply to a social-behavioral IRB. We >encourage them to refer to this book for guidance in implementing the regs and >carrying out their responsibilties. > >I have yet to find any on-line tutorials that are not fairly clinically >oriented. For now, at least, it seems that, because social-behavioral IRBs >still have to adhere to regs designed primarily for clinical rsearch, we will >have to also live with clinically slanted training programs. > >BG > >Mary Watson wrote: > > > Does anyone have access to, or knowledge of, any IRB Research Training > > materials, preferably interactive CD's or some such, that is appropriate > > for the use of small universities with primarily social science resarch, > > limited research in other areas and no FDA involvement? If so, could you > > please point me in the right dirction to locate same? > > > > Thank you. > > > > Mary Watson > > > > Mary H. Watson > > Director, Grants and Contracts > > Room 215, Regional Center for Continuing Education > > Valdosta State University > > Valdosta, GA 31698 > > > > 229-333-7837 (phone) > > 229-245-3853 (Fax) > > > > ====================================================================== > > Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including > > subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available > > via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") > > ====================================================================== > >-- >================================================================== >Barbara H. Gray, Director >Office of Research & Grants Administration >College of Charleston >66 George Street >Charleston, SC 29424 >Campus Location: 407-G Bell Bldg. >Office: 843.953.5673 Desk: 843.953.5885 Fax: 843.953.6577 >e-mail: xxxxxx@cofc.edu URL: http://www.orga.cofc.edu/ >================================================================== > > >====================================================================== > Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including > subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available > via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") >====================================================================== Mary H. Watson Director, Grants and Contracts Room 215, Regional Center for Continuing Education Valdosta State University Valdosta, GA 31698 229-333-7837 (phone) 229-245-3853 (Fax) ====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ====================================================================== ====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ======================================================================
