Medical Research Participation Consent Form

Medical Research Participation Consent Form

When conducting clinical trials and medical research studies, obtaining informed consent is not just a regulatory requirement—it's a fundamental ethical obligation. This Medical Research Participation Consent Form template provides research institutions, hospitals, universities, and clinical research organizations with a structured, compliant way to document participant consent while ensuring every volunteer understands what they're agreeing to.

Built for healthcare providers, clinical research coordinators, principal investigators, and IRB administrators, this template covers all essential elements of informed consent: study purpose and procedures, potential risks and benefits, compensation details, confidentiality protections, and clear withdrawal rights. Whether you're running pharmaceutical trials, behavioral studies, or longitudinal research projects, this form helps you maintain the trust and transparency that ethical research demands.

Why Paperform for research consent?

Traditional paper consent forms create filing headaches, version control issues, and delays in participant enrollment. Paperform transforms your consent process into a streamlined digital workflow that maintains compliance while improving the participant experience. Participants can review materials at their own pace, and your research team gets instant notifications when someone completes the form.

With conditional logic, you can tailor consent information based on participant demographics or study cohorts, ensuring everyone sees exactly what's relevant to them. Collect eSignatures through Papersign to create legally binding, time-stamped consent records with a complete audit trail—essential for regulatory inspections and data integrity requirements.

Use Stepper to automate post-consent workflows: automatically add approved participants to your research database, send study schedules and compensation tracking information, notify your IRB coordinator of new enrollments, and trigger follow-up communications at key study milestones. This keeps your research moving forward while maintaining meticulous documentation.

This template is designed for research institutions, hospitals, universities, pharmaceutical companies, CROs (Contract Research Organizations), academic medical centers, and any organization conducting human subjects research that requires IRB approval and informed consent documentation.