THE CLINICAL RESEARCH VIDEO
Click here to watch . It is a new web-based interactive training video aimed at teaching clinical and social researchers how to better protect research subjects and avoid research misconduct in clinical research.
The Research Clinic video lets the viewer assume the role of one of four characters and determine the outcome of the storyline by selecting decision-making choices for each playable character. The characters are:
- A principal investigator (PI), a busy oncologist who must balance doing what he thinks is best for his patients and his research;
- A clinical research coordinator, an overworked nurse who works for a PI who pressures her to falsify data and violate study protocols;
- A research assistant who has difficulties obtaining informed consent and following research protocols; and
- An Institutional Review Board (IRB) chair who is tasked with ensuring that research subjects and the integrity of the research enterprise are protected while dealing with a culture resistant to change.
The viewer is presented with various scenarios. For each scenario, the viewer is asked to choose from among courses of action, each of which leads to a different outcome. The video can be used to teach researchers how to avoid research misconduct and violating regulations enacted to protect human subjects in research studies.