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
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