Mary A. Banks Director, BUMC IRB
March, 2011Training for IRB Board Members
Session 1
Upcoming System Changes
As of 6pm on March 10 the INSPIR system will “be down” for all users (IRB & IACUC)
Before midnight on March 10th INSPIR I will be back up IACUC will be back to “business as usual” IRB protocols will be “read only”
Investigators and IRB will be able to open, read, and print INSPIR I Protocols Consent forms Attachments Mod memos /Approval letters No processing of ANY IRB actions by anyone
3/10-3/15 !
The Next IRB Meeting will be run on INSPIR II
Training for Board Members for INSPIR II will be in multiple parts
1)Part I : The Basics (Investigator role)2)Part II: Board Member role (IRB Assistant)3)Part III: Board member access to Test Server 4)Part IV : Locating Analyst pre-reviews and
giving Reviewer Feedback5)Part V (optional) Board member “mini-
session” training on March 11 and March 14th ( details to follow)
Part I :The BasicsThe Basics of your training :
For background and overview: Please read the Feb. 2011 CR Times feature article : www.bu.edu/crtimes
Please take the time to watch the training video (with Power-Point slides) posted on the IRB website as “Investigator Training”. It provides a lot of information about the protocols themselves, their structure, how protocols are created and migrated, etc.
Click here to link to video
Part II: Board Member “role”
How to log into INSPIR II How to locate your homepage Board Member : IRB Assistant How to find a sample protocol (to read) as a
Board MemberStudy applicationConsent formsStudy attachments
How To Log In to INSPIR II
www. not yet.com/inspir 2 1
On March 15, 2011 the URL for INSPIR II Production Server will be
posted and the site will “go live” As Board members we will give you
the URL for the Test Server
Clicking on the URL will bring you to this INSPIR II log-in page
Please do not attempt to log
in to production for
INSPIR II before March 15th - doing so could disrupt the migration.
Do NOT give out URL for
test server to others
2You must Log-in using
your BU user name (xxx.bu.edu)
and Kerberos password
This is your HOMEPAGEEach person has his/her own homepage
Red arrow points to your “name” (This person’s name is Board Member)
From Your HOMEPAGEFrom your homepage you will have 3 major options
My Assistant – this is where you update your personal profile & contact information about YOU (all about YOU!)
Study Assistant –this is where you find and update all YOUR STUDIES (if you have any)- including studies where you are a PI or co-investigator or study staff. Here is where you would also create a new protocol.
IRB Assistant- this is where you find materials assigned to you for your IRB review as a Board Member
This is Your Home-Page
My Assistant (personal profile) Purple ArrowStudy Assistant ( your own IRB protocols) Blue ArrowIRB Assistant (your IRB protocols for review) Red Arrow
Training about the “Roles”On the “investigator “training video and Power-
point slides you will find instructions about the first two rolesMy AssistantStudy Assistant
IRB Assistant The rest of these slides relate specifically to the
IRB Assistant role It is here that you will find all the materials you
need for your IRB reviews of protocols as Board Members
Back on your Home-Page
Under “IRB Assistant” Role
You will see multiple options :Meeting agenda- to view upcoming agenda“Find a study” to locate a specific study”
(other options will be discussed later)
Make sure that you verify that you have selected the correct IRB Panel from the drop-down menu
(see red arrow)
Select Panel here
Correct Panel
Once you have verified that you have the correct IRB Panel
Click on “Meeting Agenda” (under the IRB Assistant Role )
(red arrow)
On this page you will see
Panel Name- Green Arrow Meeting Date: –Red ArrowItems for review by category- Blue arrowMeeting Chair – Purple arrow
This will bring you to the Meeting Agenda Page
Use right hand scroll bar to scroll down (yellow arrow)
Red Arrow points to how protocols will be listed
Click where it says “click to open” to OPEN the protocol
This opens the “cover” page for this study H-30025
You will see “general info”Study number , PI, study
status, study (lay) summary (yellow arrows)
From here Click on Study Components
(red arrow) to OPEN the protocol , consents and
attachment s
PI name
From this “submission components” page you will see: The submission form The ApplicationThe consent forms Other study docs (= attachments)
Click on the “icon” next to each item to OPEN it
This will open up the “IRB Application” for H-30025
You can view it Section by Section (red arrow) or
Look at it in its entirety (Blue Arrow)
Access to the INSPIR Test Server
Access to the Test Server will be limited to IRB staff, Board Chairs and Board Members, “super-users”, CRRO and a few support people
Please do NOT give the test server URL to others – we cannot have hundreds of users logging into the test server
Under NO circumstances should anyone try to log into the PRODUCTION SERVER before March 15th – this could negatively impact the institution wide migration
Access to the Test ServerWe will email you the URL for the test server by the end of
the day today and then you will be able to log-in using your BU user-name and Kerberos password
You can go into Study Assistant Create a new protocol –just to play around and get
familiar with the applicationWe will list you as a co-investigator on a test protocol so
that you can go in and look at a dummy protocol that was created in INSPIR II – in the email we will tell you that IRB number
You can go into IRB Assistant – and look under a meeting date and see a new protocol, an amendment and a PR waiting for full board review (details of the meeting date will be in the email)
Parts IV and VYou will receive emails regarding the rest of
the Board Member slides (how to see the Analysts pre-reviews and how to “give feedback”
You will also receive emails about “mini-sessions” for Board Member Training
These Board Member Training Slides will be posted on the IRB website www.bumc.bu.edu/irb
Final Thought
Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better….
~King Whitney Jr.
