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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.
Instructions on how to access CITI and add required courses to your account:
GUIDE: How to Access CITI Courses
CITI Certificates and Research Protocols
Once all trainings are completed, please share your certificates with your Principal Investigator (PI). CITI certificates of all associated personnel must be kept 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.
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 account. However, 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
Please note - there is a noted issue between CITI and SPARCS/Cayuse, which is affecting CITI trainings importing into SPARCS/Cayuse. See Announcement for more details.
Completing Required CITI Trainings
To determine the trainings appropriate for you/your team, please refer to the "Required Training for Researchers" page for more information.
Past Updates to CITI Courses:
SEPTEMBER 09, 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.