PROTECTING HUMAN SUBJECTS - A set of three instructional films

The Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) has compiled an educational video pertaining to human subjects research and protection. This can be a useful tool to OUCOM faculty, research staff and students who deal with human subjects as part of their research.

This video is 85 minutes long and is divided into three parts:

a) Evolving Concern (Protection for Human Subjects) - Evolving Concern traces the development of today's comprehensive program to protect human subjects of research out of earlier ethical codes and societal concerns. This film selected historic events in behavioral and biomedical research to show why protection is needed and how it came about.

b) Balancing Society's Mandates (Criteria for Protocol Review) - This section depicts an IRB in action. Dr. Edmund Pellegrino, Director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, explains the basis for the criteria that an IRB follows in reviewing research. In commenting on IRB deliberations, he points out why the IRB seeks clarification and information from the researcher.

c) The Belmont Report (Basic Ethical Principles and their Application) - This section describes the basic ethical principles that underlie research involving human subjects: respect for persons, beneficence and justice. This film illustrates their application in case studies of biomedical and behavioral research and shows the principles at work in the resolution of ethical conflicts. The principles provide a common ground of understanding vital to protecting research subjects as new techniques emerge.

Click here to view the video (file size: 322 megabytes).