Education & Training

The OHSRP Education Series offers monthly live videocast sessions on a wide range of topics related to human subjects research. Experts in the field present these sessions. You can also access video recordings and slides from the NIH Investigator Seminar Series on the OHSRP website. This series covers important themes for NIH investigators, including how to determine if your protocol needs IRB review and the steps required to close a protocol.

There are presentations on various activities that occur during research, such as planning a protocol, creating the informed consent document, and understanding your responsibilities as an investigator during a study. Other topics include managing documentation, reporting research-related events, FDA-regulated research, and research involving vulnerable participants.

OHSRP requires investigators and IRB members to complete specific online courses provided by the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI Program). You can access these required courses through the NIH CITI Program portal on this website. Besides the mandatory courses, you can also explore many other informational courses using your NIH CITI account.

The OHSRP Office of Compliance and Training (C&T) holds monthly training sessions for IRB members and presents brief information sessions on specific topics relevant to the Board. You can find summary tip sheets for these monthly trainings on the OHSRP website. The IRB member training page also offers many other educational resources.

C&T also offers educational sessions upon request for groups within the IRP. For example, some ICs require their new fellows to attend training on reporting research-related events when they first arrive at NIH. Another popular topic is the informed consent process, including the short form process for participants who don't speak English. If your IC or lab wants C&T to provide an educational session on a human subjects research topic, please email us at OHSRPCompliance@od.nih.gov.