Enhancement of IRB Education & Technology

我们提出的计划将有助于提高教育质量，并加强这个为科罗拉多大学健康科学中心和我们的五个附属机构服务的大型多机构审查委员会（IRB）的基础设施。我们的长期目标是建立一个高效和有效的IRB审查方案系统，为研究人员提供可访问的技术和教育支持，以保护人类受试者。我们的具体目标是1)通过为研究者创建一个全面的在线教程来提高人类受试者保护的教育质量；2)通过创建一系列在线专题教程，提高研究人员继续教育的质量；3)通过创建在线教程提供的教育项目，提高IRB会员教育质量；4)将这些在线教程提供给科罗拉多大学系统内的附属irb，以提高irb之间的一致性；5)继续加强COMIRB数据库，以支持电子协议提交的发展。这些新教程的一个主要优点是，它们包括了扩展的案例研究，这些案例研究将根据个人学科的需求（如儿科）进行定制，因为我们目前的案例研究涉及成人。这个计划的另一个主要优点是，IRB成员的培训，实际上现在没有电子格式，将被我们的大型IRB和CU系统IRB广泛利用，以增强一致的应用程序和

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.