October 2, 2003

Dear Colleagues:

We are writing to update you on The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine requirements for human research subjects training for faculty and staff. On-line human subjects training was started in the fall of 2000 and subsequently completed by all faculty and staff who do human subject research. This certification was valid for three years and, for some persons, is about to expire.

" Faculty and staff for whom human subjects training certification is about to expire must review and pass certification by December, 2003 for the Conflict of Interest (COI) and Conflict of Commitment module before they will be allowed to continue to perform human subjects research. This module is available at https://secure.lwservers.net.

As you know from previous emails, there is already a requirement that all faculty and staff must complete this module and an assessment by December 2003. Thus, this requirement will not add any new burden.

For your information, the other training requirements for participation in human subject research are as follows:

" All faculty members must attend the new Course on Research Ethics (C.O.R.E.) or its equivalent by June 30, 2006. The URL is http://www.hopkinscme.org/cme/events/core0304.html.
" Fellows must meet the C.O.R.E. requirement before the end of their training period.
" New faculty, fellows and staff must complete the online human subjects training and COI training before they can begin to participate in human subjects research. This requirement is in addition to the C.O.R.E. requirement.

Please see the web site (https://secure.lwservers.net) for other required training modules.

Should you have any questions about the recertification requirement, please contact the Office of Human Subjects Research regulatory team at 5-3008 or via e-mail (ohsceb@jhmi.edu). Thank you for you cooperation in making the research that we perform the absolute best in every way.

Sincerely,