Strengthening capacity for human research protections: a joint initiative of Yale University, CIDEIM, and UniValle

The general process included: * assessing current knowledge and skill sets of institutional officials, researchers, and ERC members; * assessing current policies and procedures supporting the infrastructure of the human research protection program; * identifying gaps between current and desired levels of knowledge and skills for each group; * identifying the methods or other mechanisms necessary to educate the targeted population to achieve desired knowledge and skill set, and * identifying procedures, forms, checklists, or other documents that aid the targeted population in practicing the policies and procedures that develop and support the desired human research protection infrastructure. [...]a process fits nicely into a continuous quality improvement (CQI) cycle. « Since our partner institutions were in the process of committing themselves to CQI efforts, the leadership at both institutions supported the gap analysis of human research protection activities as a needed CQI initiative.