Mandatory IRB training Module

CITI Online Training

CITI FAQs and About CITI

Important Notice:

FAU’s research portfolio continues to grow in leaps and bounds, and with that growth comes the need to be more and more attentive to nationally accepted standards.  As most of you know, researchers working with human subjects at FAU are required to undergo federally mandated training, and we have used the NIH Training for the past several years. However, a more comprehensive option called CITI – Collaborative Inter-Institutional Training Initiative – has become the nationally accepted standard.

Based on the recommendation of the FAU Institutional Review Board, all new protocols being submitted to the IRB beginning October 1, 2006 will require CITI training for the researchers conducting studies involving human subjects.  Continuing review studies will not require researchers to immediately complete CITI training, but it is encouraged.  Those researchers, including faculty and students, who have already completed the NIH training will be allowed to continue under that training at this time.  However, by August 1, 2007 ALL researchers at FAU conducting research that involves human subjects will be required to have completed the CITI Online Training.

This training was originally developed at the University of Miami and is still administered by UM.  The benefits of CITI are many-fold.  Not only has it been adopted by 600+ institutions across the US but it has also become an international standard.  Researchers are able to choose their area of specificity and the modules of training are then geared to that area.  For example: social behavioral researchers will not be expected to complete the biomedical research modules and vice versa, so the training is tailored to the area of research interest. We anticipate that users will be pleased with the learning experience CITI will provide.

Updated October 2006 by Dianne Parkerson