Catologue of materials for education and training

The below materials may be borrowed from the Human and Animal Research Protections Office for review, education and training purposes. New materials will be added to the collection periodically. To make a request, please contact Timothy Sparklin at 5-2737 or sparklin@umbc.edu

Human Research 

Books/Articles

• Institutional Review Board Member Handbook, Jones and Barnett, 2004
• UMBC IRB Researchers Guide (July 2005 Version)
• Office of Human Research Protection (OHRP) Quality Improvement Program and Compliance Activity
• Office for Protection from Research Risks (OPRR) (1993) Protecting Human Research Subjects: Institutional Review Board Guidebook
• Protecting Participants and Facilitating Social and Behavioral Sciences Research, from The National Research Council
• Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs, Inc. (AAHRPP) Evaluation Instrument for Site Visitors

Multimedia

• Investigator 101: Training for investigators in the responsible conduct of human subjects research (Office of Human Research Protections) (CD-Rom)
• Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R): 2003 Annual Institutional Review Board Conference, including the 18th Annual meeting of ARENA (CD-Rom)
• Unforgotten: Twenty-Five years after Willowbrook (DVD)
• Protecting Human Subjects, (National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration (VHS Video))

Articles from IRB Ethics and Human Research (The Hastings Center) - previous editions are available from HARPO

May/June, 2007 (Volume 29, Number 3)

• Third Party Risks in Research:  Should IRBs Address Them?
• The Many Ways of Saying Yes and No:  Reflections on the Research Coordinator’s Role in Recruiting Research Participants and Obtaining Informed Consent
• Monitoring Reportable Events and Unanticipated Problems:  The PHAROS and PREDICT Studies of Huntington Disease
• First Impressions:  The Experiences of a Community Member on a Research Ethics Committee

July/August, 2007 (Volume 29, Number 4)

• Who Should Go First in Trials with Scarce Agents?  The Views of Potential Participants
• Informed Consent for Dementia Research:  The Study Enrollment Encounter
• Does Size Matter?  Salience of Follow-up Payments in Drug Abuse Research

Articles from IRB Advisor (Thomson - American Health Consultants)- previous editions are available from HARPO

May 2007 (Volume 7, Number 5)

• Institutions learn from experiences of the first SCRO committees
• Here are some pointers on establishing a new SCRO committee
• Create a how-to book to explain procedures when IRB director is absent
• HIPAA proves thorny issue for historical medical archives
• Some ides for IRBs dealing with historical documents
• Focus on risk, not incentives in surgery research review

June 2007 (Volume 7, Number 6)

• Research with illegal immigrants raises ethical, practical concerns
• What IRBs should consider in research with illegal immigrants
• OHRP director says new guidance on research definition could be public by year’s end
• Clinical trial registries are an idea whose time has arrived
• Compliance Corner:  Expert offers advice on dealing with investigator noncompliance issues

July 2007 (Volume 7, Number 7)

• Recipe for confusion:  FDA’s draft guidance plus OHRP’s final guidance
• Here’s the FDA’s draft guidance about AEs in a nutshell
• IRBs need to look at risks and benefits from cancer patients perspective
• Does your IRB need some help:  An expert gives tips
• Sexual abuse survey shows no risk of harm to subjects
• Physicians’ group coordinates research through network, internal IR

August 2007 (Volume 7, Number 8)

• IRBs still recovering from Hurricane Katrina
• Tips from the front lines:  Improving IRB disaster preparedness
• A novel idea for improving IRB ethics focus:  Recruit more nurses
• IRB director revises informed consent policy to include often excluded populations
• Expert discusses how IRBs interpret “minimal risk”
• Institution's best practices include quality improvements in adverse event reporting forms and obtaining feedback for IRB office

Animal Research

Books/Articles

• Animal Care Policies (United States Department of Agriculture)
• The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Animal Care Report (United States Department of Agriculture)
• Animal Welfare Act and Animal Welfare Regulations (United States Department of Agriculture)
• Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (National Research Council)
• Guidelines for the Care and Use of Mammals in Neuroscience and Behavioral Research (National Research Council)
• Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee Guidebook (Applied Research Ethics National Association (ARENA) and Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW))
• Laboratory Animal Management: Rodents (National Research Council)
• Occupational Health and Safety in the Care and Use of Research Animals (National Research Council)
• Public Health Service Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (Office for Protection from Research Risks (OPRR))
• Public Health Service Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare)
• Methods and Welfare Considerations in Behavioral Research with Animals (National Institute of Mental Health)

Multimedia

• Training in Basic Biomethodology for Laboratory Mice (Laboratory Animal Medicine) (CD-Rom)
• Information Resources for IACUCs, 1985-2000 (Animal Welfare Information Center) (CD-Rom)

Responsible Conduct of Research

Books/Articles

• The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age (The National Research Council and The Computer Science and Telecommunications Board)
• Integrity in Scientific Research (Institute of Medicine and The National Research Council)
• On Being A Scientist: Responsible Conduct In Research (National Academy Press)
• Responsible Research: A Systems Approach to Protecting Research Participants (The Institute of Medicine)
• Responsible Science: Ensuring the Integrity of the Research Process (Volume I) (National Academies of Science)
• Responsible Science: Ensuring the Integrity of the Research Process (Volume II) (National Academies of Science)

Multimedia

• Ethics in Biomedical Research (Howard Hughes Medical Institute) (DVD)

Lab and Biosafety

Books/Articles

• Biosafety in the Laboratory: Prudent Practices for the Handling and Disposal of Infectious Materials (National Academies of Science)

Multimedia

• Practicing Safe Science - Focuses on safety in the molecular biology laboratory, demonstrates safe practices, aids in the promotion of laboratory safety (Howard Hughes Medical Institute - Office of Laboratory Safety)  (DVD)
• Safety in the Research Laboratory - Guidance on controlling hazards associated with common activities in the modern biology laboratory (Howard Hughes Medical Institute - Office of Laboratory Safety)  (DVD)

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