Training Requirements
HMS and HSDM Personnel
All HMS and HSDM personnel working on a research project and interacting with study participants and/or their identifiable specimens or data must complete a human subjects protection training. A training refresher is required every three years.
Non-HMS personnel
All non-HMS personnel who interact with study participants and their identifiable specimens or data, and who are working on an approved protocol through another IRB (subcontract or not), must at minimum have taken a human subjects protection training, and we must receive a copy of the training certificate. These individuals will follow their own institutional policies on training (and refreshers), however if the protocol is especially risky or involves a vulnerable population, the CHS reserves the right to request (or require - depending on the situation) that the Investigator or other research personnel take a refresher training or a training elective specific to the situation or population.
All non-HMS personnel who interact with study participants and their identifiable specimens or data who work at an institution that does not have an IRB and that institution is relying on the HMS IRB review and approval of the protocol, must follow HMS training policies.
Updated: 25-Mar-2011