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 introduces the essentials of healthcare compliance, including key fraud and abuse laws, Medicare billing, HIPAA, risk assessment, auditing, and the core elements of an effective compliance program.
Practical guidance for investigators on ClinicalTrials.gov registration, results reporting, review criteria, and ongoing compliance.
IP for Students and Postdocs introduces early-career researchers to intellectual property fundamentals, helping them identify, protect, and responsibly share innovations from academic and research settings.
These courses explore key topics related to research security and international engagement.
A comprehensive introduction to ethical principles, regulations, and responsible practices that guide software and technology professionals throughout the software development lifecycle.
Provides community research partners with disability-accessible education on ethical issues in social and behavioral research.
Introduces you to key information about, and tools to use, the 3Rs of animal research.
Covers the NIH SBIR-STTR proposal process, from program eligibility and proposal development to submission, award implementation, and business-university partnerships.
Provides essential training on why privacy awareness and compliance matter.
This course equips community partners with the knowledge and skills to ethically and effectively engage in research.
Provides instructions for creating the structures, personnel, and funding for a clinical research program.
This webinar explores replication’s role in scientific progress and public trust, covering the replication crisis, how replications are evaluated, and barriers to making them routine.
This course provides learners with a review of contemporary bioethics issues.
This webinar covers ethical focus group practices, including informed consent, confidentiality, and Institutional and Tribal IRB oversight.
Examines the application of IRB exemptions, focusing on overlooked flexibilities in categories 1 through 3 through discussion and real-world examples.
Explores the transformative impact of AI on biomedical research, addressing its unique characteristics, potential to exacerbate health disparities, and the urgent need to redesign research processes and incentives to ensure ethical and equitable knowledge discovery.
This webinar examines the key considerations, structures, and practical steps for forming a successful Research Integrity Standing Committee.
Explains how the Common Rule applies to secondary research with data and biospecimens.
This webinar outlines key requirements, exceptions, and compliance steps under the NIH Policy on Enhancing Security Measures for Human Biospecimens.
This webinar outlines key requirements, exceptions, and compliance steps under the NIH Policy on Enhancing Security Measures for Human Biospecimens.
This course offers practical training on ICD-10-CM structure, coding conventions, and official guidelines to support accurate diagnosis coding, proper billing, and audit readiness across leadership roles.
Explains how AI can be responsibly integrated into GMP auditing to enhance audit execution, data integrity, and compliance while anticipating emerging regulatory and risk considerations.
This webinar for IRB, IACUC, and sponsored program administrators covers seven key compliance elements with strategies and case studies to strengthen research, reduce risk, and promote integrity.
The synergistic relationship between best practices, regulations, and professional experience forms the foundation for working in a BSL-3 facility.
Explores how generative AI (GenAI) can support science communication.
Describes how to calculate the appropriate sample size for different study designs and outcomes.
Explains why and how IRBs must assess quantitative research design as an ethical issue, including risks like poor methodology, participant burden, data privacy, and AI-generated data contamination.
Provides an overview of conflict, types of conflict, conflict styles, communication styles, and intervention strategies.
The webinar explores effective collaboration between IACUC and IBC, detailing their roles, regulatory responsibilities, and best practices to ensure safe and ethical life sciences research while enhancing oversight and protecting workers and animals.
Helps clinical and operations leaders move from AI exploration to confident, ethical, and effective implementation.
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.
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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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.
Mark Suckow, DVM, DACLAM has over 30 years of experience in research and IACUC operations. He has served as an IACUC member and a consultant to multiple academic and commercial institutions. Dr. Suckow co-edited the first three editions of The IACUC Handbook. In addition, he is a Past President of AALAS and serves as an emeritus member of the Council on Accreditation of AAALAC, International.
Dr. Nancy Devino is Director of the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs in the School of Public Health at Georgia State University (GSU). She holds a PhD in chemistry and served as a faculty member at two-year and four-year colleges before transitioning into full-time research development and administration.
Dr. Celi is the principal investigator behind the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care and its offspring, MIMIC-CXR, MIMIC-ED, MIMIC-ECHO, and MIMIC-ECG. With close to 100k users worldwide, an open codebase, and close to 10k publications in Google Scholar, the datasets have shaped the course of machine learning in healthcare.
Dr. Arango serves as the Vice President of Content and Education and chairs the Program Advisory Committee, a role he has held since 2016. He has held a number of roles since joining CITI Program in 2011, initially as Assistant then Associate Director of Education for Human Subjects Research and then as the Director of Content and Education. Before joining CITI Program, Dr. Arango served as the Director of Human Subjects Protections/IRB for Nova Southeastern University from 2009-2011 and the IRB Administrator from 2004-2009. Before directing NSU’s HRPP/IRB Dr. Arango was a research associate and a program instructor.
In Our Learners' Words
Julien D.
Clinical researcher
As a researcher with very little prior training in the regulatory aspects of research conduct, the information in this module was very helpful.
Elisa B.
College Research Professor
The course was clear and direct. It did not provide information that was unnecessary and confusing.
William H.
Human Resources Intern
I like how the quiz results elaborate greatly on the nuances and anything noteworthy that contributes to understanding the logic behind the answer, not just knowing the answer.
Jon F.
Former Bioethics Teacher & Current Ethics Committee Member
I liked the high level and detail of the course material. I found it to be challenging, but when I finished the course, I felt a real sense of accomplishment.
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