The Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI Program) is dedicated to serving the training needs of colleges and universities, healthcare institutions, technology and research organizations, and governmental agencies, as they foster integrity and professional advancement of their learners.
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Provides strategies and information pertinent to disaster response and research reactivation.
Reviews how to properly conduct an accident investigation, including identifying the root cause and implementing corrective act...
These guides provide resources and guidance for developing and facilitating in-person or virtual RCR training sessions.
Explores the topic of human enhancement and the ethical considerations it presents.
Provides learners with an overview on the state of faculty and staff mental health while explaining the role an institution can...
Provides research administrators with tips related to working with faculty and research teams.
Foundational course that orients and prepares learners to engage with the scholarly publication process in an informed way.
Discusses steps that investigators and clinical sites can take to understand and respond to an FDA Form 483.
Covers a systems approach to grant management and provides strategies for managing your team and your grant.
Covers key concepts in scholarly publishing and provides an overview of the publication process for both traditional and hybrid...
Covers the best practices of data management and security for graduate student researchers.
An in-depth review of the development and execution of protocols.
Explores the concept of race in clinical research and important ethical and regulatory questions.
Discusses ways to improve diversity and equity among clinical trial participants.
Reviews DoD requirements and limitations for research.
Describes CRISPR genome editing, including its applications and ethical questions.
An overview of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) and the associated privacy and ethical challenges.
Explore key ethical, export, security, intellectual property, and transparency requirements related to international engagement.
Provides learners with a foundational understanding of infection prevention techniques.
Meets the requirements of a general laser safety training program for research and medical institutions.
Hazard awareness, communication, and safe practices for non-lab personnel working in and around laboratory facilities.
Discusses the FDA’s approach to inspecting GMP facilities and the ways that facilities can prepare for inspections.
Explores recent FDA enforcement of FDAAA 801 and noncompliance pitfalls to avoid.
Reviews FCPA as it relates to university research.
Discusses the importance of CRA soft skills in building productive relationships with sites and sponsors.
Discusses ways that sponsors, sites, and clinical research organizations can transform the clinical trial experience.
A review of allowability of expenditures on federally supported projects.
Explores different types of observational research and provides best practices for IRB review.
Provides an overall approach to and best practices for partnering with technology companies to design and conduct research.
Provides research administrators with strategies to build, improve, and retain employees.
CTrials helps grow sponsored research programs by taking on the many administrative challenges inherent in managing clinical trials.
Protocol Builder is an online protocol writing and collaboration platform that also speed up your pre-review turnaround times.
Tech Software a leading provider of SaaS compliance solutions for higher-education, academic medical centers, hospitals, government and biotech companies.
N2 is a not-for-profit alliance of Canadian research networks and organizations working to enhance national clinical research capability and capacity.
BIC Study Foundation is a resource for those who want to take CITI Program courses in Korean. They are a certified training provider by the Korean FDA/MAFRA for HRPP and ACU Programs.
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Meet A Few Of Our Expert Authors and Presenters
Our courses are built by over 150 highly qualified experts and rigorously peer reviewed to incorporate various perspectives and ensure accuracy, completeness, and overall quality.
Alisha Oropallo, MD FACS, Director of the Comprehensive Wound Healing Center. She is an Associate Professor at Zucker Hofstra School of Medicine and Feinstein Institutes of Medical Research. She has been the lead investigator on clinical trials, published papers, and has been invited to lecture in wound healing globally.
David Babaian leverages his expertise in regulatory affairs, healthcare law, and project management to provide consultation on U.S. and international research compliance and data privacy law. He previously worked as a regulatory attorney with Quorum Review IRB.
Dr. Vallero's research at Duke University addresses environmental engineering and engineering ethics, and at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency focuses on exposure to chemical ingredients based on their inherent physicochemical properties as well as product usage and other human factors. This includes all exposure routes and pathways.
Jeanne Viviani, MPA founded and managed two sponsored research offices including development programs, pre-award, compliance, research accounting, project close-out and outreach to the community. Throughout her career, she has executed a variety of high-impact trainings and programs to increase grant applications and awards at all the institutions she has served.
In Our Learners' Words
Myrene M.
Associate Faculty
The course materials are brief and clear. Such brevity and clarity are perfect for those who are busy with other duties at work and provide for a more friendly and less overwhelming task. I love the quizzes because I can learn from my mistakes. After submitting the quiz, the correct and wrong answers are explained. This reinforces learning.
Julie S.
Assistant Professor & Postdoctoral Research Fellow
These courses were easy to access and succinct, which made a review of the Belmont Report key tenets, as well as the review of differences between practice and research, a focused and time efficient endeavor.
Folasade A.
Student
I like the opportunity to be able to read/review CITI study notes at any time.
Motunrayo O.
Professor
Very educative course. It was insightful and informative. I learned and relearned a lot.
Courses Approved by a Top Academic CME Provider
CITI Program courses are approved for CME credits through the Albert Einstein Montefiore Continuing Professional Development Center (CPDC).
Albert Einstein College of Medicine-Montefiore Medical Center (Einstein) is accredited by the Joint Accreditation for Interprofessional Continuing Education to provide continuing education activities for healthcare professionals. Einstein is accredited to offer continuing education credit for the following professions: medicine, nursing, psychology, pharmacy, dentistry, optometry, social work, nutritional science, and athletic training.
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New Webinar – Tips for Research Administrators: Working with Faculty and Research Teams
In this webinar, you will gain insight on how to create and integrate a productive research culture within an organization, connect with and support faculty during the onboarding process, support faculty success through networking events and proposal preparation, and work with large research teams.
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What CITI Program is Reading – August 16th, 2022
“What CITI Program is Reading” is our weekly blog series which highlights news articles curated by our staff and relevant to research, higher education, healthcare,...
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Free Live Webinar – Clinical Trial Staff Diversity and Cultural Humility
This webinar will introduce the concept of cultural humility in context of recent studies illustrating the effects of research team diversity on study recruitment success and challenges.
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