The IRB Process

The IRB process was one of the most difficult things I faced during my master study. I started working on the IRB protocol since last week and I am not finish yet. The challenge in this process is that you are trying to convince some people that your topic is good. I am one of those people who are not good at persuading others, which makes it harder for me. Also, because I changed my topic and started over, the work has become harder and difficult. Moreover, it is stress and dispersion I am working at different parts at the same time, introduction, literature review, and the IRB. However, I believe that this is going to help in the soon future when I go back to my country and start working. The funniest thing about this process is that when
I first opened the IRB application, I was wondering why my classmates are saying it is difficult. I felt I am smarter than them because I did not feel it is hard. I did not know about the IRB protocol until last week in the class when Dr. Foster showed us Yasmin’s paper as example.