The Trusted Standard in Research, Ethics, Compliance, and Safety Training
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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This course provides graduate students with practical guidance, strategies, and resources to confidently navigate each stage of the dissertation process from proposal to defense.
Provides learners with an examination of developments in ICH Good Clinical Practice.
Covers various considerations for reviewing human subjects research, including subject selection, risk minimization, balancing risks and benefits, and privacy and confidentiality.
Teaches you how to develop, evaluate, and deploy a digital measurement product that meets the requirements of regulators and payers, as well as your buyers and adopters.
Provides hands-on knowledge of research accounting principles and practices.
This course provides training on working with birds in research settings.
A condensed and combined single-module course based on the NSF Research Security Training.
This course provides an overview of export compliance regulations along with information specifically tailored for certain roles and responsibilities.
An introductory video-based series to the NSF’s SBIR-STTR funding program and a discussion of key elements of the proposal and proposal process.
An in-depth review of advanced topics important to research administrators.
This course provides training on working with insects in research settings.
Introduces the basics of planning for, managing, sharing, and archiving data generated through biomedical research involving human participants.
An overview of detection and remedies for academic integrity violations.
Introduces you to key information about, and tools to use, the 3Rs of animal research.
Prepares you to apply digital health ethics in healthcare and research.
Covers the principles, governance approaches, practices, and tools for responsible artificial intelligence (AI) development and use.
This course addresses ways to create and maintain healthy workplace environments in various research settings.
This course provides foundational training on conflicts of interest for healthcare professionals.
An overview of Medicare for healthcare operations, covering Parts A, B, C, and D as well as key aspects of its administration, audits, and oversight.
A review of HIPAA’s HITECH Act of 2009 geared toward business associates, vendors, and others subject to HIPAA.
Provides an introduction to the EU AI Act, including risk-based approaches, compliance obligations, enforcement, interplays with other European digital policy, and perspectives
Covers the regulatory aspects related to SaMD and CDSS when conducting clinical investigations and other considerations.
Provides fundamental knowledge of clinical trial regulatory affairs.
Provides foundational training on conflict of interest and commitment requirements set forth by various federal agencies.
An introduction to SBIR-STTR programs.
Covers the essentials of statistical analysis to help learners gain greater statistical literacy.
Helps develop leadership skills to meet today’s changing, diverse, and dynamic environments.
Provides an overview of conflict, types of conflict, conflict styles, communication styles, and intervention strategies.
Describes field navigation and discusses the map, compass, and GPS tools, and skills to plan a route and what to do if you get lost.
Empower yourself to effectively intervene and support others in critical situations with our comprehensive Bystander Training course.
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.
A complete research compliance suite that supports IRB, IACUC Conflict of interest, Bio Safety Export Control, and more.
HRP Consulting provides customized services for your research program, including temporary staffing, IRB/IACUC assistance, accreditation support, program evaluations, training/education and more.
CTrials helps grow sponsored research programs by taking on the many administrative challenges inherent in managing clinical trials.
Informed Consent Builder is a cloud-based platform that streamlines the process of managing and generating informed consent forms.
Protocol Builder is an online protocol writing and collaboration platform that also speed up your pre-review turnaround times.
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Meet A Few Of Our Expert Authors and Presenters
Our courses are built by over 350 highly qualified experts and rigorously peer reviewed to incorporate various perspectives and ensure accuracy, completeness, and overall quality.
Ms. Anderson is Program Director of The Greenwall Foundation. She previously served as Senior Advisor for Public Health Education at the HHS Office for Human Research Protections and as Senior Policy and Research Analyst at the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues.
Rachel is the Executive Director of the Penn State HRPP. She oversees a team of 27 IRB professionals who oversee human subjects research across Penn State’s many campuses. She focuses on improving how IRBs do their work to protect human subjects while moving science forward.
Robert performs subrecipient monitoring in the Office of Sponsored Projects at Yale University. He has volunteered with the Federal Demonstration Partnership since 2014, and is currently co-chair of the Expanded Clearinghouse Subcommittee.
Liane Moneta-Koehler is the Assistant Provost for Research Integrity and Compliance at Vanderbilt University. She oversees compliance programs in the areas of research security, export controls, and human subjects research; and she supports the research community with evolving federal policies.
In Our Learners' Words
Armando T.
Adjunct Faculty
The methodology, presentation of the topics, and language used were very pleasant. You do not get bored or annoyed, because the development is very dynamic and understandable.
Joan R.
Assistant Professor II
All of the course information is relevant to my profession, particularly in conducting research with human subjects. The guidelines, standards, protocols, and information contained in the modules are thoroughly covered and comprehensively discussed.
Isaias M.
Graduate Student
The videos were the best part of the course. They really helped me visualize how the application of good clinical practice would occur in real time, making the text easier to read and follow.
Hailey G.
Research Assistant - Undergraduate Student
The course was very informative and provided a great elaboration on the concepts discussed. I found it important to incorporate the historical aspect of the research field and how it has evolved over time. The case studies allowed for a constructive self-evaluation of the material within each module. The videos were also a productive form of reinforcing the concepts discussed.
Courses Approved by Top Continuing Education Accreditors
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.
CITI Program is also accredited by the International Accreditors for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) and offers IACET CEUs for its learning events that comply with the ANSI/IACET Continuing Education and Training Standard. IACET is recognized internationally as a standard development organization and accrediting body that promotes quality of continuing education and training.
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