CITI Program Training
All personnel actively engaged in human subjects research must maintain current training by completing the required courses every three (3) years. Training is available, and must be completed, online through the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) Program. Principal Investigators submitting a research proposal for review to the Institutional Review Board (IRB) are responsible for ensuring all researchers to be engaged in human subjects research under his/her supervision hold valid and current training certifications. If researchers have not linked their training certification to their user profile in IRBNet, certifications of training completion for all research team members need to be submitted at the time of the application as a single PDF document.
UD offers CITI training for animals in research, responsible conduct of research and export controls.
How to complete CITI Program Training
To complete online training, users need to register at the CITI Program site and affiliate their profile with the University of Delaware. Several training courses are available under the UD affiliation. Under the “Add a Course” menu researchers must select the appropriate learner group for human subjects protections, depending on the research they will be involved with: Biomedical Focus; Social-Behavioral-Educational Focus or Non-UD Researchers (available to non-UD collaborators). There is no cost or fee associated with the completion of required UD training courses.
Once a learner group is selected, a list of all the required training modules will populate and need to be completed. The program is available online 24/7. Users may stop the training at any time and return to where they left off at their convenience, as many times as needed, until the training is finished.
If a researcher has completed human subjects protections training in CITI Program under a different institution affiliation in the recent past, he or she must log in to CITI program and add their affiliation to UD. Modules previously taken that are still current will be transferred to the UD course and only required modules that have not been completed will need to be done.
A minimum overall passing grade of 85 percent is required to successfully complete the training. Once the training requirement has been fulfilled, a completion report is generated. A researcher may upload his/her training completion report onto his/her www.IRBNet.org user profile. Doing so will link that training record to the investigator profile, where it will automatically be linked to all his/her submissions to the UD IRB.
The completion date will be recorded as the day the last required module(s) was completed and the course was finished. In order to maintain training as current, the course must be completed before the three year expiration window. CITI Program will send an automatic reminder 90 days before the most current completed course will expire.
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Important Note
Training in the responsible conduct of research (RCR) and/or good clinical practice (GCP) DO NOT fulfill the basic training requirement (HSP) all UD researchers must comply with to carry out human subjects research.
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