1.24 HRPP Training Requirements for IRB Members

Last Revised: 7/14/2022

1.0 Purpose

The purpose of this policy is to describe the Organization’s requirements for training for IRB members and alternates.


2.0 Policy

It is the policy of the Organization that IRB members and alternates will be qualified through initial and continuing education in order to fulfill their responsibility to protect the rights and welfare of human subjects.


3.0 Definitions


4.0 Initial Training and Orientation


5.0 Continuing Education


DOCUMENT HISTORY:

 Written: 12/28/2015 (Approved: 12/28/2015) - original author not recorded

 Revised: 2/1/2018 - revision not documented

 Revised: 7/14/2022 - Deleted list of specific documents to be supplied to new IRB members; added requirement that full orientation of new members must be completed before the new member may serve as a reviewer or count as a voting member; clarified that completion of required continuing education will be assessed at the time of the annual evaluation of IRB members in terms of general regulatory knowledge; deleted requirement that ORA maintain initial and continuing education training records.


Revision #11
Created 21 October 2019 21:52:07 by Autumn M Eberly
Updated 17 April 2025 15:34:34 by Robert A Lewis