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
> >
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Director, Grants and Contracts
Room 215, Regional Center for Continuing Education
Valdosta State University
Valdosta, GA  31698

229-333-7837 (phone)
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