Molly Fran Jeffries and I are looking at this - perhaps at GRC in the spring? Or the regionals in 2002 or national meetings in 2002 fall? Mary At 02:46 PM 8/29/2001 -0500, you wrote: >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") >====================================================================== 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") ======================================================================
