CRS Program Course Requirements

To become a Certified Research Specialist, you must complete 26 CRS contact hours, 20 of which are required courses, as follows:

• UAMS Human Subject Protection training course through CITI (4 hours)
• Essentials of Quality Human Subject Research (6 hours)*

OR

Three Essentials constituent courses (6 hours)

• Informed Consent
• Developing Case Reporting Forms
• Record Keeping and Regulatory Binders
• Developing a Research Protocol (2 hours)
• Writing Standard Operating Procedures (2 hours)
• Validation of Processes and Procedures (2 hours)
• Advanced Research Ethics (4 hours)

You may count courses offered by other programs toward your CRS hours, with the approval of the Research Education Manager, but they can account for no more than 6 of your total contact hours. 

* Replaces the Essentials of Quality Human Subject Research that was worth 8 contact hours of credit.

If you have any questions please email Kate Henning, PhD

or call 501-526-6879