MRI Safety Training

• Training info
• Training materials
• Sign up for a safety training
• Training schedules

Training information

Before being permitted to work in the fMRI environment, the DBIC requires research personnel to complete a safety training course conducted by an MRI Technologist, as well as complete an online safety training module. The purpose of our safety training protocol is to provide research personnel with rigorous information on how to safely conduct themselves in the scanning environment. At the end of the training session, research personnel will be allowed to be in the control room with a certified scan operator. The DBIC requires that two researchers (at least one certified scan operator and a safety-trained assistant) are in the control room at all times.

Trainees will be expected to know and follow all best practice safety procedures, including: how to thoroughly and properly adminster the pre-scan experimenter checklist,  subject and metal screen participants, operate the metal detector, operate the airlock door to the MRI suite, and importantly, be competent in their knowledge of emergency practices and procedures and familiar with DBIC's incident reporting policy. Finally, we will provide users with best practices for cleaning and disinfecting to maintain a healthy shared research environment.

Training materials

• Conducting research in the DBIC
• Potential hazards
• Pre-scan experimenter screening
• Subject screening
  • Metal screening
• Emergency practices and procedures
• DBIC incident reporting policy

To sign up for a safety training class:

• Research personnel must complete the Dartmouth Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects education requirement. The DBIC requires research personnel to complete the CITI Online Tutorial found here. Please complete the Group 2 Social/Behavioral Basic Course.
• Once CITI training has been completed, please email your certificate of completion to Courtney Rogers (courtney.rogers@dartmouth.edu), and sign up for a safety training course. You'll also need to provide the name of the faculty/lab with which you'll be working.

MRI safety training classes will be limited to 4 participants per class.

For questions about MRI safety training, please email courtney.rogers@dartmouth.edu

Training schedules

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