IRB Required Training

Institutional Review Board (IRB) training is required by all personnel involved in human subject research before the commencement of research.

Required Training for Human Research

• Researchers (student, staff, faculty)
  • One of the following:
    • IRB Investigators: Social & Behavioral Research
    • IRB Investigators: Biomedical Research
  • Any of the following (if applicable)
    • Social & Behavioral Research with Prisoners
    • Social & Behavioral Research Children
    • Social & Behavioral Research International Research
    • Biomedical Research Involving Prisoners
    • Biomedical Research Involving Children
    • Biomedical Research Involving Pregnant Women, Fetuses, and Neonates
    • CITI Good Clinical Practice Course (required if your study is an NIH-funded clinical trial)
• IRB Committee Member
  • IRB Committee Members
• IRB Chair
  • IRB Chairs

How to Register for CITI IRB Courses

1. Log into CITI or create an account
2. Take the enrollment questionnaire using the “Enrollment Questionnaire” responses below.
3. Select “IRB/Human Subject Research”
   1. Select one of the following choices based on your association
      1. IRB Chair
      2. IRB Members
         • Includes all members of IRB- chairs, non-affiliated members, etc.
      3. IRB Investigators: Social & Behavioral Research
         • Select if your work primarily focuses on social-behavioral research
      4. IRB Investigators: Biomedical Research
         • Select this course if you are conducting clinical or medical research
         • Examples: clinical trials, health science research, stroke recovery, older participants and memory testing, research with language deficits, etc.
      5. IRB External Researcher Training
         • If you are working with external collaborators who need to complete ethics trainings, they would add this course to their account. Once complete, the certificate will need to be downloaded then uploaded to the SPARCS Protocol.
   2. Select a course dependent on your research area:
      • Social-Behavioral Research with Prisoners
      • Social-Behavioral Research with Children
      • Social-Behavioral International Research
      • Biomedical Research Involving Prisoners
      • Biomedical Research Involving Children
      • Biomedical Research Involving Pregnant Women, Fetuses, and Neonates
      • Good Clinical Practice
        • Required if your study is/will be funded by the NIH and meets the NIH definition of “clinical trial”
4. After answering the questionnaire, the courses will be added to your account.