A research project is usually described many times. The title, objectives, study design, investigators and endpoints are typed into a synopsis, then into an ethics form, then into a data sheet, a thesis, a manuscript and a grant application. Each copy can drift from the others.
MRB is built around a different idea: one structured record per project.
One record, many uses
The same information is entered once and then reused:
- The protocol written for the thesis becomes the ethics submission.
- The approved study defines the data-collection forms.
- The completed project becomes the indexed thesis and the starting point for a manuscript.
- The project summary feeds a grant application.
What this changes
For a student, it means less retyping and fewer inconsistencies between documents. For a guide, it means reviewing the current version rather than guessing which file is the latest. For an Ethics Committee, it means a submission that matches the protocol it was built from.
For the institution, it means that every project leaves a complete, searchable record of what was planned, approved, done and published.
What it does not mean
Reuse is not automation of judgement. A protocol still needs a guide’s review, and a submission still needs the committee’s decision. The record carries the information forward; people still decide what happens to it.