The september issue of JERHRE features four themes: Experiments that IRBs might conduct to evaluate alternative candidates for best IRB practices; Ways of learning and respecting the values of research participants, with special focus on participants from traditional cultures; Evidence-based assessment of the emotional risk inherent in research on trauma and other kinds of research that may produce an emotional response; and Procedures for sharing data and solving problems of disclosure risk while retaining analytical usefulness of the data. The curriculum materials presented here are deliberately general so that the instructor can adapt them to any students, be they freshmen, ethics committee members, or senior investigators. Drawing on the concepts and methods presented in the seven articles that explore these four topics, some useful skills of ethical problem solving can be developed.