Complete the U.S. National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute's "Human Participant Protections Education for Research Teams" tutorial. Access the tutorial by clicking on the assignment labelled "NCI hppert tutorial" on your left

Log in, then complete all modules: History, The Basics, Informed Consent, IRB Review, Ongoing Protections and International Research. When finished, you will receive a Completion Certificate. Email a screen shot of it to your instructor.

At the end of this tutorial you should be able to:

- Identify and describe at least five historical events that have influenced current ethical guidelines and Federal regulations

- Identify the three fundamental ethical principles that guide the ethical conduct of research involving human participants

- Describe the role of international guidelines in the protection of human participants

- Recognize when a study requires human participant protections

- Describe the responsibilities of at least four organizations or individuals in protecting human participants

- Identify issues to consider when selecting participants for a study and the policies and regulations that apply to special groups

- Define privacy and confidentiality as it applies to protecting human participants and describe how these can be maintained throughout the research process

- Define informed consent and describe the elements that should be included in an informed consent document

- Describe conditions that may affect a person's capacity to consent and the responsibilities of the researcher in seeking consent from research participants

- Identify at least one new and emerging issue in informed consent that should be considered

- Define institutional review board (IRB), describe its membership requirements, and identify at least four responsibilities of an IRB

- List the criteria each study must meet in order to be approved by an IRB

- List and describe four ways that ongoing protections of human participants are ensured throughout the conduct of a study

- List and describe special challenges to investigators that may arise when conducting international research

- Describe the regulations and policies applicable to international research supported by U.S. federal monies.