Most modules take from 15 to 20 minutes to complete. CITI is designed so that you can work at your own pace. You can exit and return later.
The UNK IRB is notified electronically once you have completed the CITI training. You can also print a hard copy of the completed grade book for your own records, although you do not have to turn this into the IRB.
CITI, The Collaborative IRB Training Initiative, is a Web-based education program for individuals involved in human subjects research. The CITI Web site is maintained by the University of Miami; a national consortium developed the training content. Topics covered in the training include maintaining privacy and confidentiality with subjects, obtaining informed consent, working with vulnerable subjects, ethical principles, and many other issues and information relating to human subjects research. At the conclusion of each training module is a brief quiz that assesses your understanding. UNK is among more than 400 institutions from throughout the world that participate in the CITI program.
You must earn a total passing score of 75 percent after completing all of the required modules. The CITI grade book lets you track your progress.
- Access the CITI training from the UNK IRB Web site.
- Click on the link “Register for CITI course.”
- Select the “University of Nebraska at Kearney” in the “All Others” drop-down box.
- Create your own user name and password.
- Select the learner group appropriate to your research.
- Click on “Basic Course” to access the required modules.
- Complete each of the required modules including the quiz at the end of each module. Completing each module opens the subsequent module.
- You can log in and out as often as you wish, and you can retake the modules as often as you need to pass the training.
- Access to the optional modules by scrolling to that part of the screen within your learner group.
- Access modules from another learner group by clicking “change group.”
Complete the training modules within your learner group, which is based on the type of research you are conducting. You need only to complete the group of modules within your learner group.
Modules are grouped for
- Students: Social and Behavioral Research
- Faculty: Social and Behavioral Research
- Students: Biomedical Research
- Faculty: Biomedical Research
- IRB members: Faculty: Social and Behavioral or Biomedical group modules and the IRB Member Module
When research involves, children, prisoners, workers, culturally diverse groups, and/or is international, Web-based, utilizes records and/or is to be conducted in the schools, it is expected that researchers will complete the relevant module training. Faculty and/or principal investigators should monitor that student researchers complete the optional training components.
Students: Social and Behavioral Research
- Students in Research-SBR
- History and Ethical Principles-SBR
- Defining Research with Human Subjects-SBR
- Privacy and Confidentiality-SBR
Faculty: Social and Behavioral Research
- Belmont Report and CITI Course Introduction
- History and Ethical Principles-SBR
- Defining Research with Human Subjects-SBR
- The Regulations and the Social and Behavioral Sciences-SBR
- Assessing Risk in Social and Behavioral Sciences-SBR
- Informed Consent-SBR
- Privacy and Confidentiality-SBR
- Conflicts of Interest in Research Involving Human Subjects
Students: Biomedical Research
- Students in Research-SBR
- Privacy and Confidentiality-SBR
- History and Ethical Principles
- Informed Consent
- Social and Behavioral Research for Biomedical Researchers
- HIPPA and Human Subjects Research
Faculty: Biomedical Research
- Belmont Report and CITI Course Introduction
- Defining Research with Human Subjects-SBR
- Privacy and Confidentiality-SBR
- History and Ethical Principles
- Informed Consent
- Social and Behavioral Research for Biomedical Researchers
- HIPPA and Human Subjects Research
- Conflicts of Interest in Research Involving Human Subjects
IRB Members
- This training is for those members who sit on the board
- What Every New IRB Member Needs to Know
And one set of faculty modules from below:
- Social and Behavioral modules
- Belmont Report and CITI Course Introduction
- History and Ethical Principles-SBR
- Defining Research with Human Subjects-SBR
- The Regulations and the Social and Behavioral Sciences-SBR
- Assessing Risk in Social and Behavioral Sciences-SBR
- Informed Consent-SBR
- Privacy and Confidentiality-SBR
- Conflicts of Interest in Research Involving Human Subjects
- Biomedical Modules:
- Belmont Report and CITI Course Introduction
- Defining Research with Human Subjects-SBR
- Privacy and Confidentiality-SBR
- History and Ethical Principles
- Informed Consent
- Social and Behavioral Research for Biomedical Researchers
- HIPPA and Human Subjects Research
- Conflicts of Interest in Research Involving Human Subjects
- Optional Modules for All Researchers:
- Research with Prisoners-SBR
- Research with Children-SBR
- Research in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools-SBR
- International Research-SBR
- Internet Research-SBR
- Records-Based Research
- Group Harms: Research with Culturally or Medically Vulnerable Groups
- Workers as Research Subjects-A Vulnerable Population
The CITI training is required of all UNK faculty, staff, and students engaged in research with human subjects. The training is organized in “learner groups” that contain modules relative to both social and behavioral research as well as biomedical projects.
Effective January 8, 2007, all researchers—students, faculty, staff--submitting new IRB protocols as well as researchers whose training requires a refresher course should complete the CITI program. Those researchers, who have completed the National Institutes of Health (NIH) education course previously required by the IRB, should plan to take the new CITI training by the end of the spring 2007 semester.
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