Question 1

Institutions are required by the U.S. Public Health Service to do which of the following:

	Apply the same financial conflict of interest policy to all researchers regardless of their funding source.
	Eliminate any and all conflicts of interest.
	Evaluate whether a significant financial interest is related to an investigator’s research and constitutes a financial conflict of interest.
	Update their financial conflict of interest policy every four years.

Question 2

Which of the following financial conflict of interest information must be made available by institutions on a public website or within five business days upon request?

	The conflicts of commitment of researchers funded by the U.S. Public Health Service.
	The financial conflicts of interest of senior/key personnel on projects funded by the U.S. Public Health Service.
	The financial interests of all research administrators at an academic center.
	The financial interests of all faculty at an academic center.

Question 3

Which of the following statements most accurately describes a mitigation report?

	A report from the U.S. Public Health Service to an institution of what must be done to deal with financial conflicts of interest of its PHS-funded researchers.
	A report to the U.S. Public Health Service of efforts that will be taken by the institution to deal with any bias that was found in research conducted while there was an unreported financial conflict of interest.
	A report from an institution telling the U.S. Public Health Service how bias will be minimized before a research project begins.
	An annual report to the U.S. Public Health Service of all the significant financial interests of the institution’s PHS-funded researchers.

Question 4

Which of the following statements is true regarding the reporting of outside interests and the management of conflicts?

	The institution must report identified financial conflicts of interest to the U.S. Office of Research Integrity.
	Investigators must disclose their significant financial interests related to their institutional responsibilities and not just those related to a particular project.
	Investigators must disclose only their financial interests related to a particular research project.
	Investigators are responsible for developing their own management plans for significant financial interests.

Question 5

The U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) requires institutions to:

	Post the significant financial interests of all researchers to a publicly available website.
	Block faculty from owning any equity interest in a company that sponsors research.
	Collect information about the significant financial interests of all faculty and staff.
	Disclose their investigators’ new financial conflicts of interest to the PHS awarding component within 60 days of discovering them.