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The recent headlines and controversy over the resignation of a South Korean investigator who admitted to ethical lapses and fraudulent data have raised concerns among IRBs and others in the research industry.
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Every other week, those most directly involved in protecting human subjects in Vanderbilt Universitys research programs meet in an effort to ensure that the universitys policies and procedures are implemented consistently across its four institutional review boards.
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Much of social-behavioral research is, at its heart, the study of social relationships between ourselves and our family, our friends, our coworkers, and others in our lives.
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An IRB data management software system currently being rolled out at institutions across the country gives IRBs the ability to minutely tailor their own systems and to suggest their own additions.
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Formal ethics training and education for community representatives who serve on IRBs or otherwise provide an ethical perspective regarding human subjects research is one area of research training that has been overlooked by many institutions.
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The Ethical Force Program, a collaborative effort of the American Medical Association (AMA) to develop health care systemwide performance measures for ethics, will be field-testing a tool kit on patient-centered communication with diverse populations from March to December 2006 with eight volunteer hospitals and eight physician groups.
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It can be a challenge to design a training program in human subjects protection that can meet all the needs of varied researchers from biomedical to social-behavioral disciplines, from introductory courses to advanced topics for experienced researchers.
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One of the bigger headaches for IRBs is having to sift through hundreds or thousands of unanticipated problems submissions when most of these should never have been reported.
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Amid growing concern that terrorists may strike with a nuclear weapon instead of a biological one, the government is fast-tracking programs to develop medical countermeasures against radiological and nuclear threats.
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Its a staple of undergraduate psychology studies the research requirement, in which students agree to sign up for surveys and other low-risk psychology research activities in exchange for academic credit.
