Human Subjects External information

Human Participant Decision Chart:

• To determine the applicability of your project to the requirements for human participant protection, please review information by the Office of Human Research Protection  http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/humansubjects/guidance/decisioncharts.htm

 

Cooperative Agreement:

Missouri State University - St. John's Cooperative IRB Agreement (pdf document)

 

Informed Consent:

• Office of Human Research Protection offers information on the essential components of informed consent forms. http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/humansubjects/assurance/consentckls.htm
• University of Minnesota offers training programs on Informed Consent procedures and forms. Two programs are offered one for health and biological sciences projects, and one for social and behavioral sciences. http://www.research.umn.edu/consent/

Additional Online Training Programs:

• University of Illinois at Chicago offers an online course including questions and answers the guide you through the learning experience http://tutorials.rgs.uci.edu/
• NIH – “Are You Conducting Research Using Human Subjects” provides information to determine if your project is subject to the federal regulations on the protection of human subjects. 
    http://www-cdp.ims.nci.nih.gov/brochure.html#conducting
• University Michigan Medical School – “Ethical Principles of Human Subjects Research” provides linkages to three key publications – The Belmont Report, the Nuremberg Code, World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki.  These documents form the basis for current day principles and practices to ensure the protection of human subjects.  This site also has links to other bioethics sites. http://www.med.umich.edu/irbmed/ethics/ethics.html

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