About CITI Online Training Courses

What is CITI?

The Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) provides training for committee members (IACUC, IRB, & IBC), principal investigators, students and staff with online instruction that documents compliance with various federal mandates. These trainings must be renewed every four (4) years.

Access CITIGUIDE: HOW TO ACCESS CITI COURSES (PDF)

CITI Certificates and Research Protocols

• Share your certificates with your Principal Investigator (PI) once all trainings are completed.
• Keep CITI certificates for all personnel in a secure location that can be easily accessible by research staff.
• The PI of record must certify personnel have been trained and verify training pre-dates participation in the project.
• External researchers may use CITI as training if they do not have any research training from their home institution.

Note: Protocols cannot be approved until all associated personnel have completed the required CITI trainings.

CITI and SPARCS

Once CITI trainings have been completed, they will be automatically synced with your SPARCS Cayuse account. If your CITI trainings are not showing in your account, please make sure to certify your Institutional Email Address in CITI matches your email address associated wish your SPARCS/Cayuse account. 

Instructions: Verifying Institutional Email in CITI and SPARCS (PDF)

Completing Required CITI Trainings

Refer to Required Training for Researchers to determine the trainings appropriate for you/your team.

Past Updates to CITI Courses

• September 9, 2024: If personnel already completed the "old" CITI courses to their account, then those courses' certificates can count in place of the newly created courses. For example, the "AREA III research ethics" course is equivalent to the "Non-animal Responsible Conduct of Research." The personnel who have yet to add any of the courses to their account should add the new courses based on the guidelines below.