Workshops

Workshops

PRIM&R offers a variety of courses designed to meet the educational needs of those charged with ensuring ethical practices in human subjects research and animal care and use.

These interactive programs range from introductory to advanced level learning. They offer peer-to-peer engagement, networking, and access to faculty who are seasoned research oversight professionals and experts in the fields of research, regulation, science, policy, and ethics.

Past sessions have included IRB administrator boot camps, Exploring the Common Rule: A Guide for Beginners, QA/QI sessions, and joint offerings for IACUCs and IRBs.

IACUC Fundamentals

IACUC Fundamentals is a basic level educational program. Participants will review the history of animal welfare regulations and oversight and accrediting bodies; the roles and responsibilities of the IACUC and staff members; training IACUC staff, IACUC members, and research staff; protocol review; post-approval; and how to work with others outside of the IACUC.The course includes small group activities and scenarios so that attendees can engage with one another and apply what they learned throughout the workshop.

IRB 101

IRB 101 provides attendees with the core concepts and fundamental knowledge needed to succeed as members of a human research protection program (HRPP) and/or an IRB.

Attendees learn: how the federally mandated IRB system developed within the United States; ethical principles underlying the federal regulations governing human subjects research; key components of the regulations that govern IRB operations and research activities; procedures for reviewing research involving human subjects; and more.

Research Ethics and Oversight in the Digital Age

Advances in digital technology and the proliferation of mobile devices have afforded researchers unprecedented access to massive amounts of data and a more diverse group of potential participants, as well as opportunities to study a wide range of complex human behaviors, unobtrusively, as they occur in real time. However, use of these technologies, in a rapidly changing landscape in which personal information is routinely collected, analyzed, managed, and shared, combined with people’s changing perceptions about privacy, raises questions about the suitability of the prevailing ethical framework for research with human participants: the Belmont Principles. 

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