Enhancement of IRB Education & Technology

我们提议的计划将有助于提高教育质量，并加强这个大型多机构审查委员会(IRB)的基础设施，该委员会为科罗拉多大学健康科学中心和我们的五个附属机构提供服务。我们的长期目标是建立一个高效和有效的IRB方案审查系统，为研究人员提供可获得的技术和教育支持，以保护人类主体。我们的具体目标是1)通过为调查人员创建一个全面的在线教程来提高人类主体保护教育的质量；2)通过创建一系列在线专题教程来提高调查人员继续教育的质量；3)通过创建在线教程来提高IRB成员教育的质量；4)向科罗拉多大学系统内的附属IRBs提供这些在线教程，以提高IRBs之间的一致性；5)继续增强COMIRB数据库，以支持电子方案提交的开发。这些新教程的一个主要优势是，它们包括扩展案例研究，这些案例研究将根据个人的纪律需求而量身定做，例如儿科，因为我们目前的案例研究涉及成年人。这项计划的另一个主要优势是，IRB成员培训，现在几乎没有电子格式，将被我们的大型IRB和CU系统IRB广泛使用，以增强一致的应用和 对联邦法规的理解。 为了实现这些具体目标，我们将与两名合作调查人员合作，他们之前开发了 技术在创建在线教程中的应用。Allan Prochazka博士之前是COMIRB的联合主席，在伦理学和人类主体保护方面拥有丰富的专业知识，他将为调查人员、IRB成员和继续教育开发教育模块。Laurie Shroyer博士已经成为创建这些在线教程的技术方面的专家。我们还将聘请一名信息技术顾问协助我们的数据库开发人员继续对数据库进行必要的改进。将建立一台新计算机，作为更新现有系统的额外工作站。将购买一台膝上型计算机，向其他机构介绍我们的系统，并培训调查人员使用电子协议提交程序。我们相信，这一综合计划将为我们的机构提供更高水平的质量、研究人员的参与和对人类受试者研究的审查和监督。

Our proposed program will serve to improve the quality of education and enhance the infrastructure of this large multiple Institutional Review Board (IRB) serving the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and our five affiliated institutions. Our long term goal is to establish a highly efficient and effective system of IRB review of protocols that provides accessible technical and educational support to investigators for human subject protection. Our specific aims are to 1) improve the quality of education in human subject protections by the creation of a comprehensive online tutorial for investigators; 2) improve the quality of continuing education for investigators by creating a series of online topical tutorials; 3) improve the quality of IRB Member education by creating educational programs available in online tutorial; 4) provide these online tutorials to affiliate IRBs within the University of Colorado system to improve consistency between IRBs; 5) Continue enhancement of the COMIRB database to support the development of electronic protocol submission. A major advantage of these new tutorials is that they include the expansion of case studies that will be tailored to individual disciplinary needs such as pediatrics since our current case studies deal with adults. Another major advantage of this program is that IRB member training, virtually unavailable in electronic format now, will be utilized widely by our large IRB and the CU System IRBs to enhance a consistent application and understanding of the federal regulations. In order to accomplish these specific aims, we will work with two co-investigators who have previously developed technology in the creation of online tutorials. Dr. Allan Prochazka who was previously a Co-chair in COMIRB and has extensive expertise in both ethics and human subject protections, will develop the educational modules for investigators, IRB members, and continuing education. Dr. Laurie Shroyer has become an expert in the technological aspects of creating these online tutorials. We also will utilize an Information Technology consultant to assist our database developer in continuing the necessary improvements to the database. A new computer will be established as an additional workstation for updating the current system. A laptop computer will be purchased for presentations of our system to other IRBs and in training investigators in the use of the electronic protocol submission process. We believe this comprehensive program will provide our institution with a higher level of quality, investigator participation and efficiency in review and oversight of human subject research.