Research Ethics

Approval Process

Submission Dates

Projects for approval by the Campus Research Ethics Committee should be submitted by the first Friday of each month for review during the last week of the month. Please note that The Committee does not grant retroactive approval.

Committee Meeting Dates

• January 28

• February 25

• March 25

• April 29

• May 27

• June 24

• July 29

• August 26

• September 23

• October 28

• November 25

• December 16


 

Complete Mandatory Principal Investigator Training

The CITI Course in the Protections of Human Research Subjects is an online tutorial managed by the University of Miami. 

YOU MUST BE TRAINED PRIOR TO SUBMITTING AN APPLICATION TO THE IRB.

This training is available on-line at http://www.citiprogram.org.
 

The training takes about 2 - 3 hours to complete. You will be required to register first. There is no fee for this training. Select University of the West Indies - Cave Hill. You may register for training tracks in either biomedical sciences or social and behavioural sciences.

CITI Training Instructions: 
CITI-Instructions.pdf

 


 

Clinical Trials

In accordance with international best practice, the Research Ethics Committee strongly recommends that all clinical trials be registered.


NIH Clinical Trials Registration: http://www.ClinicalTrials.gov/


Click here for the Application Checklist »