General IRB Resources

Welcome to the Rocky Mountain Tribal Institutional Review Board’s directory of resources.  In the links below, you will find useful and important information relating to concepts which guide the IRB, IRB protocols, and more.  If you have any questions, please visit this page for the RMTIRB Coordinator’s contact information.

IRB EasyEd Documents

2015

• Assessing Scientific Validity
• Privacy and Confidentiality
• Don’t Forget the Consent Process!
• IRB Approval of Research with Conditions
• Do sensitive research questions cause emotional distress and harm?
• Enhancing Relationships Between the IRB and Researchers

 

2016

• What reading levels should consent forms be written at?
• Making Exempt Determinations
• Reviewing and Consideration of Results of Investigator Audits
• Voting at IRB Meetings
• Subpart B Determinations – Making Decisions about Pregnant Women in Research
• Reviewing Research Involving Participants with Diminished Capacity to Consent
• Minor versus Substantive Amendments
• Reviewing Advertisements
• Controverted Issues
• Definition of Human Subject Research

 

Materials from the Tribal IRB Workshop in February 2016

• Grant Awards, Tribal IRBS, and Research in the Rocky Mountian Region – L. Jace Killsback
• Human Research Protections – Francine C. Gachupin
• IRB Protocols and Resources – Francine C. Gachupin
• American Indian / Alaska Native Human Subjects Protections – Francine C. Gachupin