Overview and Navigation

The Financial Interest Disclosure System (FIDS) replaces the paper-based procedure, and reduces the administrative burden for faculty disclosing Significant Financial Interests (SFI) related to research projects. Access FIDS at http://uw.edu/research/fids/

You will need to use FIDS to

• disclose your SFI for each eGC1, new or recently awarded,  for which you are an investigator.
• disclose changes you make to your SFI, including updating information, adding new SFI,  or deleting SFI.
• disclose your SFI for Center for Commercialization (C4C/technology transfer) or Human Subjects Division (HSD).

For more information on

• who must disclose Significant Financial Interest (SFI), see GIM 10: Financial Conflict of Interest Policy
• Public Health Service (PHS) training, see the required trainings page
• basic policy information, see the UW FCOI Web site
• how to use this system, see the online FIDS training

Parts of the Page

To help you navigate through FIDS, learn the ten basic parts of the page.

Tip: Do not use your browser’s back button to navigate. Instead use the links and breadcrumb trail within FIDS.

1. Welcome with your name displayed.
2. Sign out link which will log you out of FIDS.
3. Help link which will open a new window and display the FIDS Support pages.
4. Breadcrumb trail which you can click to return to your Profile page.
5. Page title which indicates the purpose of the page.
6. Section heading with help icon, which provides contextual help.
7. Action Bar which will contain icons appropriate to the page. The Delete and Save icons appear in this image.
8. Main section of the page, indicated by the colored background, where you might view information, enter or edit data, or click a link to add information in a new window.
9. Page footer which contains buttons and/or links to complete this page and move to the next, or cancel out of this page and return to a prior state or page.
10. System footer which contains links to Learning and Contact Us.