Federal regulations require that every IRB member, researcher, and key personnel of a research team certify knowledge of federal regulations and policies dealing with human subjects. Consequently, the IRB will require that
before a protocol is reviewed, the researcher and all key personnel on the research project take the National Institutes of Health's online training course.
A hard copy of the certificate issued by the NIH at the end of the course needs to be submitted to the IRB.
The NIH Course may be accessed at the following site:
NIH Office of Extramural Research