Health Sciences and Minimal Risk IRBs, IRB News / Volume 5, Number 11, November 2013
The HS-IRBs office will be closed Thursday, November 28th, in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. The ARROW helpline also will not be staffed on November 28th. The office will be open Friday, November 29th, with limited hours and coverage, including the ARROW helpline.
To assist the HS-IRBs' office in assessing its current outreach efforts and developing future educational programs, we are conducting a short survey of the research community. Thank you very much to the over 130 people who have responded so far! We hope to hear from more study teams before the survey closes at the end of November. Your feedback will be very helpful in shaping both our current and future outreach services.
The survey is available here: https://uwmadison.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_eQZRAYdPbRVLq8l.
Thank
you in advance for taking the time to provide your valuable feedback. If you have any questions regarding this survey, please email asktheirb@medicine.wisc.edu.
The HS-IRBs Office has been offering consultations, presentations, and training on a variety of topics for several years. To assist study teams with requesting consultations and training, a new and improved [Link for document 18204 is unavailable at this time.] is now available on the HS-IRBs website. The new form is simplified and includes a checklist of IRB topics.
Study
teams should use the new consolidated form to request group presentations,
WIRB training, or a consultation with an IRB staff reviewer. To assist the
HS-IRBs office in reviewing requests for training and consultations, please include
the specific topics or questions you wish to have addressed.
As a result of the VA Office of Research Oversight audit earlier this year, the VA consent form template has been updated. Key differences from the prior consent form template include:
In addition to the updates to the consent form template, the VA has created a specific HIPAA authorization template for data repositories and revised the general HIPAA authorization template.
These updated templates should be used now by study teams preparing new IRB applications. For already approved VA studies, the HS-IRBs Office will be contacting study teams to assist them in updating their consent and authorization forms to comply with these new templates.
To allow for in-depth maintenance activities, ARROW will be unavailable from 8AM to 2PM Sunday, December 1st. This will be in addition to the standard Sunday maintenance window of 12AM to 7AM. We apologize for any inconvenience.
The HS-IRBs office has scheduled the first IRB for Beginners Workshops for 2014. These 90-minute workshops will be held in the HSLC computer lab and will give participants a first-hand view of the resources available on the HS-IRBs website as well as basic tools and tips for the ARROW electronic application submission system. The workshops will also introduce participants to the IRB’s review process and procedures. This workshop is designed to help people who are new to the HS-IRBs review process. This workshop is scheduled for the following dates:
Registration is required. Please email Brooke Mechelke at bmechelke@medicine.wisc.edu to reserve your spot in one of the future sessions. Space is limited.
The HS-IRBs office has previously held open lab
sessions for study teams seeking assistance with using ARROW. We are again
offering an open lab for anyone who wants help using ARROW. No formal training
will be offered, but HS-IRBs staff will be available to answer any questions
study teams have about ARROW.
The ARROW open lab will be held on Thursday, January 30th from 11AM
to 11:30AM in the HSLC computer lab (HSLC 2121). Registration is required
and capped at 20 participants. To register, please email bmechelke@medicine.wisc.edu.
Whether you have a question about a specific protocol, a general question about the submission process, or need clarification about research policy, we have several ways you can reach us.