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.
Describes how to build a fit-for-purpose regulatory strategy that strengthens your business strategy and differentiates your product in today’s digital health market.
The course provides fundamental knowledge of the principles and practices of clinical research.
The RCR Casebook course is a collection of real-world ethical dilemmas designed to promote discussion, critical thinking, and skill-building in RCR.
Provides a foundational overview of quantitative methods, equipping learners with the essential tools to analyze and interpret numerical data for research and decision-making.
Provides hands-on knowledge of reception and scheduling best practices.
Provides an overview of research security requirements and researcher responsibilities and best practices.
An introductory video-based series to the DOE’s SBIR-STTR funding program and a discussion of key elements of the proposal elements.
Foundational overview of clinical research meant to prepare medical residents and fellows to conduct their own research and work on research teams.
Introduces you to key information about, and tools to use, the 3Rs of animal research.
Covers the regulatory aspects related to SaMD and CDSS when conducting clinical investigations and other considerations.
Prepares you to apply digital health ethics in healthcare and research.
Provides an introduction to the EU AI Act, including risk-based approaches, compliance obligations, enforcement, interplays with other European digital policy, and perspectives
Provides an in-depth review of the elements of informed consent.
This course provides learners with a review of contemporary bioethics issues.
This webinar reflects on the creation of a culture of compliance through the lens of how one university created an enterprise-wide compliance role.
Explores common motives behind fraudulent survey research participation, how to address and mitigate the impact of identified fraudulent data, and how to minimize opportunities for malicious intent.
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 learners with emerging concepts and practices for creating research facilities.
Explains how the Common Rule applies to secondary research with data and biospecimens.
Discusses regulations and emergency response considerations for colleges and universities with research reactors, nuclear chemistry programs, and linear accelerators.
An introduction to risk management and crisis response within study abroad programs.
Discusses how to adopt a virtual first care (V1C) approach in your work.
Designed to provide information on how to adopt and integrate telehealth technologies into the delivery of the National Diabetes Prevention Program.
Covers different categories of replacements, considerations for various personnel, and references for further learning.
Discusses the four pillars of a culture of care, the impact of compassion fatigue, and individual and institutional strategies to address compassion fatigue.
Provides an overview of the current trends and incorporation of automation and digitalization in research vivariums.
Stress at research institutions is common, explore ways to navigate and mitigate the effects of stress in these settings.
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.
Dr. Bradford is currently the Assistant Director of Research Compliance at the University of Kentucky.
Alavy is a research compliance executive with 18 years of experience in corporate compliance, regulatory affairs, research compliance, and research ethics. He has worked in academia, non-profits, and with the U.S military in various roles ensuring institutions adhere to federal and local standards within their research programs.
Michelle Eckstein provides regulatory compliance, occupational health management, and animal welfare education at Weill Cornell Medicine, the Hospital for Special Surgery, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Her previous position at the NIH involved research technical support of animal models within ABSL2 and ABSL3 containment.
Serves as the Director of the Division of Laboratory Animal Resources at Stony Brook University and the Attending Veterinarian at other universities and biotech companies on Long Island, NY. Previously worked at Pfizer, Inc.
In Our Learners' Words
Taiwo O.
Visiting Scholar
I like the option to use an interactive audio-visual format, the comprehensiveness of the course and its modules, and the simple explanations of the legal requirements. Completing CITI Program’s course on social and behavioral research was an important and enriching component of my research endeavors and scholarship in the United States.
Princess M.
PhD Student
The availability of two different platforms to deliver the information – written and audio-visual – catering to different learning styles was helpful. I also appreciated the self-paced modules that allowed you to return to complete unfinished work.
Stephanie B.
Research Coordinator
I found it helpful that the information being presented included several examples and was presented in different formats, including graphs, narration, and written.
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.
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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