The new PRIM&R Knowledge Center houses a wide range of resources to keep you inspired and informed in your work in research ethics and oversight! Explore and register for live programs, access recordings and materials from past conferences and webinars, view video and podcast interviews with leaders in the field, and more. Browse resources by features such as content type, topic, and level, and sort within those results to find the resources most relevant to you.

As you familiarize yourself with the Knowledge Center, we’d like to direct you to some notable resources; today, we’ll share our top five for IRB/HRPP professionals.

1. 2020 Advancing Ethical Research Virtual Conference Content:

Our 2020 AER Virtual Conference recording bundles grant you access to recordings of keynotes, panels, and breakout sessions (plus slides and handouts) from each week of the conference. Purchasing one or more of these robust content packages provides a flexible and affordable way to explore and learn about many topics of importance in the field.

Some of the timely sessions you can watch with the AER20 recording bundles include:

• Coloring Outside the Lines: Ethical Conduct of Unregulated Research
• Online Research: Design and Review in a World of Bots, Hackers, and Evolving Technology
• Vaccine Research During a Global Pandemic: A Case Study of COVID-19
• Remote Study Auditing and Monitoring Best Practices
• Assessing the Ethics of Using Wearable Technologies to Facilitate Public Health Initiatives
• Confidentiality, Privacy, and Anonymity in SBER

And much more!

Interested in learning even more? We have recorded content from the past 6 years of AER Conferences available in the Knowledge Center. Recordings over a year old are available to members for free!

2. Ethical Research Oversight Course

PRIM&R’s Ethical Research Oversight Course (EROC) is an engaging, interactive online course that equips IRB members and HRPP/IRB staff for their roles through demonstration of the ethical principles and regulatory frameworks that govern their day-to-day work. Use EROC to train new IRB members or to provide a refresher to IRB members with experience (EROC offers up to 5.5 hours of continuing education credit). Individual and institutional licenses are available, and PRIM&R members get a discount. View a demo of the course here!

PRIM&R thanks Advarra for supporting EROC!

3. Research Ethics Digest

PRIM&R’s Research Ethics Digest (RED) is a member benefit that delivers timely and relevant abstracts and full-text articles from a wide array of scholarly journals to PRIM&R members every other month.  Each issue includes articles highlighting new research and scholarship related to ethics and regulation of both human subjects research and animal care and use; discussion guides, with thought-provoking questions focused on selected animal care and use or human research protections articles; and the RED Self-Study Program, with online quizzes that offer credit which can be applied toward recertification of your Certified IRB Professional (CIP^®) credential, Certified Professional in IACUC Administration (CPIA^®) credential recertification, or other professional credentials.

Our June 2021 issue included articles on data sharing in COVID-19 trials, human-animal chimera research, direct benefit in pediatric trials and its challenges, ethics review of big data research, strengthening workplace well-being in research animal facilities, and more.

Not a member yet? Sign up today to receive future issues of RED, free webinar and conference recordings, and more.

4. Thorny Questions in Everyday IRB Deliberations: An Interactive, Case-Based Approach

IRB review of human subjects research consistently presents a range of ethical and regulatory challenges in even the simplest of research protocols. In our July 2021 webinar Thorny Questions in Everyday IRB Deliberations: An Interactive, Case-Based Approach, speakers presented a wide variety of biomedical and social and behavioral science studies, and attendees chose several of the often thorny ethical and regulatory issues that are part and parcel of an IRB’s everyday reviews to explore. The recording from this webinar is now available for purchase!

5. IRB Administration Webinar Bundle

PRIM&R has developed and presented over 100 webinars, offering convenient, affordable, in-depth analysis on a range of important topics for professionals in the research ethics field.

The IRB Administration webinar bundle is made up of a curated selection of high-quality, on-demand recorded webinars. Developed and presented by experts, the webinars in this bundle offer insight into some of the fundamental concepts and challenges in IRB administration. It’s available to PRIM&R members for free!