General Guidance
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Welcome to the new home for IRB guidance! Our previous site housed the Standard Operating Policies & Procedures, Frequently Asked Questions, Facts Sheets and more—across multiple pages. Here, we have tried to bring all guidance together and grouped them into logical topical areas.
This process of reviewing and revising our written guidance is continuous as regulations, policies, and procedures change. However, in 2018 with the anticipation of a new electronic IRB system anticipated in 2020, we began a deep and careful review of all guidance documents.
This website is only a first step. Over the coming weeks and months, many documents on this page will be updated or replaced. In order to manage situations where existing guidance has not been updated, HRPP leadership may allow alternate courses of action consistent with regulatory requirements, the advice of legal counsel or properly promulgated University policies.
We will sunset and remove guidance when practical. In addition, in the coming months, we will be developing a Researcher Manual which supplements information on ResearchCompass. Changes and revisions in IRB guidance will be announced on our website and via our new newsletter.
Your feedback, questions and comments are always welcomed at IRB@ucsd.edu.
1 | Administration |
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1.1 Responsibility & Authority (PDF) | |
1.2 HRPP Program Organization (PDF) | |
1.3 Review & Updating of SOPPs (PDF) | |
1.4 Documentation & Record Retention (PDF) | |
1.5 UCSD Institutional Policies (PDF) |
2 | Organization |
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2.1 Composition of IRBs (PDF) | - IRBs & FWA (PDF) |
2.2 Member Appointment, Compensation & Responsibilities (PDF) | |
2.3 Orientation & Training (PDF) |
- Human Subject Protection Training | CITI (PDF) HIPAA Research Privacy training is offered by the CITI Program and is now available to UCSD faculty and staff. This training will replace the legacy HIPAA training offered on OIA's old webpage which will be retired by August 2023. For additional information on available CITI training and instructions for accessing the training modules, please see the Office of Compliance and Privacy’s pulse page: Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) Program |
4 | Functions & Operations |
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4.1 IRB Meeting (PDF) | |
4.2 Categories of Action (PDF) |
5 | Protocol Audits & Scientific Misconduct |
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5.1 Protocol Audits (PDF) | |
5.2 Communications, Sanctions, Appeals & Disciplinary Actions (PDF) | - Reporting Certain Determinations (PDF) |
6 | eIRB Services |
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6.1 eIRB Submissions & Review (PDF) | - Known issue with stamped documents in Kuali IRB [Note to File] (PDF) |
7 | Multi-Site Studies |
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7.1 Multi-Site Studies (PDF) | UC BRAID’s Guidelines on Multisite Participant Recruitment Using the UC EHR |
8 | Appendix |
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8.1 Abbreviations (PDF) | |
8.2 Definitions (PDF) |
- NIH Definition of a Clinical Trial (PDF)
- Registration of Clinical Trials in a Public Registry (PDF) - Is this Human Subject Research? | Flowchart (PDF) | Box Diagram (PDF)
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