IRB Seminar

Catalog description

This seminar will expose the student to the regulations for the protection of human and animal subjects in the context of the main types of research methodologies. The main ethical issues underlying the ethical execution of research projects will be initially considered. The regulations expressed in the report of the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research, The Belmont report, will be considered and will serve as the foundation for the seminar, within the broader ethical perspective initially presented. Students will learn that all government and private institutions receiving funds from the DHHS (including NIH & NIMH) that support or engage in research with human subjects adhere to these regulatory requirements guided by the ethical principles of the Belmont Report.