General Guidelines for the Protection of Human Research Participants

The University of the District of Columbia maintains a Federalwide Assurance (FWA # FWA00013788) with the Office of Human Research Protection (OHRP), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This Assurance includes a requirement that all research staff working with human participants will receive training in ethical guidelines and regulations.  "Research staff" is defined as persons who have direct and substantive involvement in proposing, performing, reviewing, or reporting research and includes students fulfilling these roles as well as their faculty advisors.

The University of the District of Columbia Institutional Review Board for the Protection of Human Research Participants has approved one tool for use by University researchers and research staff to satisfy the training requirement:

http://phrp.nihtraining.com

Prepared by the University of the District of Columbia Institutional Review Board (UDC IRB) with reference to the Institutional Review Board Guidebook (http://ohrp.osophs.dhhs.gov/irb/irb_guidebook.htm).  The UDC IRB acknowledges the assis tance of the College of Charleston, which shared its web materials, on which UDC’s materials are based.  The UDC IRB is also indebted to many other fine university web sites which it has visited in the course of preparing these ma terials, and in particular commends the design and content of the University of Maryland Baltimore Campus website.