About Recertification
Am I certified?
Am I recertified?
How do I get recertified?
What if I miss a monthly newsletter or a quiz?
How can I keep track of my quiz performance?
How often do I need to be recertified?
Who needs to be recertified?
What happens to those who do not get recertified?
Am I certified?
Check the "Human
Subjects Protection Training" (Formerly known as NIH Training)
list; If you find your name, this means that the IRB already has your
Human Subjects Protoction Training certificate on file. If you don't find
your name in this list, then you need to complete the Human Subjects Protoction
Training (if you haven't done so already), and fax a copy of your certificate
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Am I recertified?
Check the "Human
Subjects Protection Training" (Formerly known as NIH Training)
list; If you find your name and in the last column
you find the link "Print Certificate", this means that you are
already recertified. You can print your "Recertification" certificate
by clicking on the "Print Certificate" link.
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How do I get recertified?
Each issue of the Clinical Research Times will
contain a Feature Article with content that we think all of our clinical
researchers should know. The articles will be written by a member of our
clinical research community or, occasionally, by an outside guest author.
Each article will typically take about 5-8 minutes to read and will end
with a four-question quiz. Researchers will register for a personal, password-protected
account by clicking on the “My Account” button at the top
of the Clinical Research Times front page and following the registration
instructions. When they answer the quiz questions online, their quiz performance
will be recorded in their accounts. To be recertified, researchers must
correctly answer 75% of the quiz questions for all quizzes offered between
November, 2003 and March, 2005. The investigators will be notified before
June 30, 2005 whether they have reached this recertification milestone.
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What if I miss a monthly newsletter
or a quiz?
Whenever we publish a new issue of the Clinical
Research Times, we will send a reminder email. If you miss an issue and
quiz, past articles can be found in the Archives (see button above). You
can go back when your schedule permits and read past articles and take
past quizzes that you haven’t taken before.
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How can I keep track of my
quiz performance?
Once you create an account (click on the “My
Account” button above), you can log into your account, review your
performance on past quizzes, and identify quizzes you have not yet taken.
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How often do I need to be recertified?
Every two (2) years. The first recertification
deadline is June 30, 2005. If you were certified before 06/30/04, then
you need to complete this recertification by 06/30/05. If you were certified
after 07/01/04, then you need to complete this recertification by 06/30/07.
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Who needs to be recertified?
All clinical researchers who are involved in
the design of clinical studies, have face-to-face contact with research
subjects, collect their data, or are involved in statistical analysis
and results interpretation must be certified and recertified. Examples
include investigators, research coordinators and other study staff, study
statisticians, and data managers.
Note: Clinical personnel such as nurses or office technicians
who capture routine clinical measurements that are then also used for
research purposes (e.g., routine blood pressure, body weight, and other
biometrics) do not need to be recertified. These functions are not being
performed strictly for research purposes, and, if this is their only role,
the personnel collecting them are not considered part of the research
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What happens to those who do
not get recertified?
Researchers who have not achieved these recertification
goals by June 30, 2005 cannot be named (either as a Principal Investigator
or other role) on any new IRB submissions until they get recertified.
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