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Service-Related Questions
By Hans Johnson
Have you ever served on an IRB? If so, at what institution? What years were you on the board? What were the circumstances that led to your appointment? What introduction or orientation, if any, were you provided to carry out your duties as a member of the IRB? Did the IRB review only federally funded research or did it review all research involving data collected on human subjects? Was student research reviewed? Were there occasions when you or other members of the IRB were unfamiliar with the research methods under review and found it difficult to reach a decision? Were you released from other duties (for example, through a reduction of your teaching load) while you worked on the IRB? Compared to other committee assignments, was your work on the IRB time-consuming? Was it in any other way especially taxing? Overall, did the IRB seem to operate fairly? Did it seem to operate efficiently?
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