Practise Certified Research Specialist Proficiency Exam with a short sample and answer explanations. These are independent learning materials, not official exam questions or a pass prediction.
Exam outline and official sources
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), Office of Research Integrity · UAMS current public coursework-based examination scope, retrieved 2026-10-13 and corroborated by the Fall 2026 required-course schedule. No numbered syllabus revision, examination-outline effective date, or domain weights are published on the opened pages. The workbook credential label Certified Research Specialist (CRS) maps here to UAMS's Certified Research Specialist Proficiency Exam; the assigned slug is preserved. This mapping concerns the UAMS workforce certification program, not the separate Visionary Research Association credential with the same abbreviation.
This original 20-question sample covers selected topics across the outline. It does not reproduce official exam questions or cover every tested topic.
- Certified Research Specialist Program
- Certified Research Specialist Program Proficiency Exam
- Certified Research Specialist Program Requirements
- Certified Research Specialist Program Registration
- Upcoming Certified Research Specialist Courses
- VRA Inc. — Certified Research Specialist (CRS)™
- OHRP Lesson 2: What is Human Subjects Research?
- OHRP: 45 CFR 46
- OHRP Lesson 3: What are IRBs?
- OHRP Human Research Protection Foundational Training, Lesson 4
- UAMS ORRA Study Documentation Guideline, Version 1, April 2024
- Read the Belmont Report
- OHRP Informed Consent FAQs
- Guidance for Preparing Standard Operating Procedures, EPA QA/G-6, April 2007
- HIPAA and Research
- OHRP Guidance: Reviewing and Reporting Unanticipated Problems and Adverse Events
- E6(R3) Good Clinical Practice (GCP)
- E6(R3) Good Clinical Practice, Guidance for Industry, September 2025
- Protocol Templates for Clinical Trials
- E9 Statistical Principles for Clinical Trials, September 1998
- Subpart B — Additional Protections for Pregnant Women, Human Fetuses and Neonates Involved in Research
Certified Research Specialist Proficiency Exam
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A team systematically evaluates whether an educational intervention improves learning across schools. Under the Common Rule, which feature most directly supports classification as research?
Certified Research Specialist Proficiency Exam
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Biomedical Research or Social/Behavioral Research – CITI
Interaction and intervention
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