{"id":9,"date":"2025-04-01T12:17:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T16:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/researchethics\/approval-process\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T08:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:50:07","slug":"approval-process","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/researchethics\/approval-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Approval Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container-fluid page-wrapper\">\n<section>\n<div id=\"dept_content\">\n<div id=\"sub_content\" class=\"bodytext\">\n<div class=\"lc-block\">\n<div editable=\"rich\">\n<h1 class=\"page-header\">Approval Process<\/h1>\n<h3>Submission Dates<\/h3>\n<p>Projects for approval by the Campus Research Ethics Committee should be&nbsp;<strong>submitted by the first Friday of each month for review<\/strong>&nbsp;during the last week of the month.&nbsp;<strong>Please note that The Committee does not grant retroactive approval.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Committee Meeting Dates<\/h3>\n<p>\u2022 January 28 <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 February 25 <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 March 25 <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 April 29 <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 May 27 <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 June 24 <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 July 29 <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 August 26 <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 September 23 <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 October 28 <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 November 25 <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 December 16 <\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Complete Mandatory Principal Investigator Training<\/h3>\n<p>The&nbsp;<strong>CITI Course in the Protections of Human Research Subjects<\/strong>&nbsp;is an online tutorial managed by the University of Miami.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<strong>YOU MUST BE TRAINED PRIOR TO SUBMITTING AN APPLICATION TO THE IRB.<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>This training is available on-line at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citiprogram.org\/\">http:\/\/www.citiprogram.org<\/a>.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The training takes about 2 &#8211; 3 hours to complete. You will be required to register first.&nbsp;There is no fee for this training.&nbsp;Select University of the West Indies &#8211; Cave Hill. You may register for training tracks in either biomedical sciences or social and behavioural sciences.<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<strong><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCITI Training Instructions:&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/Docs\/CITI-Instructions.pdf\">CITI-Instructions.pdf<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Clinical Trials<\/h3>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tIn accordance with international best practice, the Research Ethics Committee strongly recommends that all clinical trials be registered.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<strong>NIH Clinical Trials Registration:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.clinicaltrials.gov\/\">http:\/\/www.ClinicalTrials.gov\/<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"..\/application-checklist\/\"><strong>Click here for the Application Checklist \u00bb<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t&nbsp;\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Approval Process Submission Dates Projects for approval by the Campus Research Ethics Committee should be&nbsp;submitted by the first Friday of each month for review&nbsp;during the last week of the month.&nbsp;Please note that The Committee does not grant retroactive approval. 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