More Than Meets The Irb: A Joint Initiative Of Washington University In St. Louis And Prim&r

Today’s episode of More than Meets the IRB investigates the role of ethical review in a dramatically changing scientific landscape where ineptitude, not ignorance, is becoming a focus of public health. Dr. Atul Gawande reveals a practical solution that is successfully addressing ineptitude among surgery teams across eight different locations around the world. Renowned speaker Dr. Gawande is a general and endocrine surgeon, professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School, executive director of a lab for health-systems innovation, and chairman of a nonprofit making surgery safer globally. “We’ve entered a world where ineptitude has become as big a problem as ignorance.” – Dr. Atul Gawande Ignorance and Ineptitude The major change in knowledge today is the emphasis on systems over research. There are two sources of failure in anything humans set out to do: 1. Ignorance—we have not learned how to solve all of our problems, but research has helped close our gaps in knowledge treme