What people can be exempted from ORD training and credentialing requirements?
After a lot of discussion with many people, including many people in the field, the following people will not be required to go through the ORD training or credentialing process: Administrative support staff don’t have to go through the ORD required credentialing or training. People who are based at an affiliate or other outside institution, and who do not come to the VA or directly interact with VA research participants. (NOTE: people who are based at an affiliate or other outside institution, but who do come to the VA to conduct human research, do have to have training and credentialing). People who are not affected include the following: – Co-investigators who do not do work at the VA (e.g., a VA researcher may collaborate with researchers from outside the VA, but the VA portion of the study is conducted at the VA with VA personnel. The outside people may be co-investigators on a VA study, and have their names listed on consent forms given to VA enrollees, but if the outside researc
