Frequency of Ethics Committee Meetings: Ethics Committee meeting will be held regularly once in 6-8 weeks either offline or online.
However, additional meeting/s may be called if required. The meeting will be communicated to the staff and the PI over telephone or email.
Venue of the meeting will be in the JSS Medical College, Mysore.
All proposals to EC for initial full review should be submitted at least 2 weeks (5 hardcopies & a Softcopy) prior to meeting to EC office. However, the documents for continuing review to be submitted 1 month prior to the expiry of approval date deadline given by the EC.
The Principal investigator designated for a given research project should submit the protocol and study related documents with a covering letter for review by the Institutional Ethical Committee.
ICF in English needs to be submitted initially by the PI for the meeting, once English gets approved the PI can go for the translation of the same in other languages & needs to provide the translation certificates for the translated documents. Back translations need not be submitted to EC for approval.
PI or the Co-I needs to make power point presentation of his/her study in the EC meeting.
The decision will be communicated in writing. If revision is to be made, the revised document in required number of copies should be submitted within a stipulated period of time as specified in the communication or before the next meeting.