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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Export Control: A Basic Course Export Control: A Basic Course
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This course provides a practical introduction to U.S. export control requirements.

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Handling Allegations of Research Misconduct Handling Allegations of Research Misconduct
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This course provides a high-level overview of research misconduct definitions, procedures, and the roles and responsibilities of individuals who assist in the handling of an allegation.

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Introduction to Healthcare Compliance Introduction to Healthcare Compliance
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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.

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All Access Webinar Package (Organizations Only) All Access Webinar Package (Organizations Only)
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Provide your organization's learners with access to currently available and future webinar recordings.

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Cybersecurity in Academic Research Cybersecurity in Academic Research
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This webinar explores cybersecurity risks in faculty–student collaborative research, with a focus on protecting sensitive research data, meeting sponsor cybersecurity requirements, and applying institutional security controls and best practices.

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3Rs Certificate Course 3Rs Certificate Course
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Introduces you to key information about, and tools to use, the 3Rs of animal research.

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Demystifying Grant Application Reviews Demystifying Grant Application Reviews
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This webinar helps trainees and early‑career investigators understand grant application review processes, scoring criteria, and common reasons proposals are not funded.

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Work-Life Balance in Research Administration Work-Life Balance in Research Administration
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This webinar explores work-life balance challenges in research administration and presents strategies to reduce burnout, improve efficiency, and support compliant research operations.

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The Role of Replication in Science The Role of Replication in Science
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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.

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Research Security: A Basic Course Research Security: A Basic Course
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Provides an overview of research security requirements and researcher responsibilities and best practices.

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RCR Research Security Training RCR Research Security Training
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Serves as research security training designed to augment RECR/RCR training.

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Research Ethics for All (RE4All) Research Ethics for All (RE4All)
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Provides community research partners with disability-accessible education on ethical issues in social and behavioral research.

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Software Development Ethics Software Development Ethics
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A comprehensive introduction to ethical principles, regulations, and responsible practices that guide software and technology professionals throughout the software development lifecycle.

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Bioethics Bioethics
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This course provides learners with a review of contemporary bioethics issues.

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Ethical Research Relationships: IRBs and Focus Groups Ethical Research Relationships: IRBs and Focus Groups
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This webinar covers ethical focus group practices, including informed consent, confidentiality, and Institutional and Tribal IRB oversight.

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Being Creative when Applying the IRB Exemptions: Part 1 Being Creative when Applying the IRB Exemptions: Part 1
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Examines the application of IRB exemptions, focusing on overlooked flexibilities in categories 1 through 3 through discussion and real-world examples.

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Redefining Ethical Research Practice in the Age of AI Redefining Ethical Research Practice in the Age of AI
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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.

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The Essential Guide to Forming a Research Integrity Standing Committee The Essential Guide to Forming a Research Integrity Standing Committee
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This webinar examines the key considerations, structures, and practical steps for forming a successful Research Integrity Standing Committee.

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Artificial Intelligence and the Medicare Coverage Analysis Artificial Intelligence and the Medicare Coverage Analysis
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This webinar outlines key requirements, exceptions, and compliance steps under the NIH Policy on Enhancing Security Measures for Human Biospecimens.

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Conflicts of Interest and Commitment Conflicts of Interest and Commitment
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The Conflicts of Interest and Commitment series contains a number of COI courses of interest to organizations.

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Principal Investigator’s Guide to ClinicalTrials.gov Principal Investigator’s Guide to ClinicalTrials.gov
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Practical guidance for investigators on ClinicalTrials.gov registration, results reporting, review criteria, and ongoing compliance.

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Post-Approval Monitoring (PAM) Post-Approval Monitoring (PAM)
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This course offers training on post-approval monitoring.

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Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) Good Laboratory Practice (GLP)
CME/CEU

This course provides training on good laboratory practice for non-clinical laboratory studies that reflects regulations and best practices established by key regulatory agencies and guidelines.

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Conflict Management Conflict Management
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Provides an overview of conflict, types of conflict, conflict styles, communication styles, and intervention strategies.

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Research Integrity for Senior and Key Personnel Research Integrity for Senior and Key Personnel
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This course offers advanced training for experienced researchers and leaders in responsible research conduct, emphasizing integrity, ethical leadership, and fostering healthy research environments.

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Advanced Mentorship Training Advanced Mentorship Training
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Equips research personnel with the skills and insights necessary for effective mentorship.

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Intellectual Property for Students and Postdocs Intellectual Property for Students and Postdocs
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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.

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Successfully Developing and Deploying Digital Clinical Measures Successfully Developing and Deploying Digital Clinical Measures
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Provides an overview of successful remote monitoring across clinical research, clinical care, and public health.

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Clinical Research Coordinator (CRC) Clinical Research Coordinator (CRC)
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CRC courses focus on key topics essential to the conduct of clinical research. They are specifically tailored to the needs of clinical research coordinators.

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The Network of Networks (N2) The Network of Networks (N2)
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N2 is a not-for-profit alliance of Canadian research networks and organizations working to enhance national clinical research capability and capacity.

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BIC Study Foundation BIC Study Foundation
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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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OneAegis OneAegis
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A complete research compliance suite that supports IRB, IACUC Conflict of interest, Bio Safety Export Control, and more.

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HRP Consulting Group – Research Consulting Services HRP Consulting Group – Research Consulting Services
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HRP Consulting provides customized services for your research program, including temporary staffing, IRB/IACUC assistance, accreditation support, program evaluations, training/education and more.

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CTrials by BRANY CTrials by BRANY
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CTrials helps grow sponsored research programs by taking on the many administrative challenges inherent in managing clinical trials.

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Informed Consent Builder Informed Consent Builder
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Informed Consent Builder is a cloud-based platform that streamlines the process of managing and generating informed consent forms.

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Protocol Builder Protocol Builder
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Protocol Builder is an online protocol writing and collaboration platform that also speed up your pre-review turnaround times.

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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.

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Tiffany Gommel, MS, CIP

The National Institutes of Health

Tiffany Gommel is the Director of the Office of IRB Operations (IRBO) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the Intramural Research Program. She is responsible for the operation and support of the NIH IRB, which reviews and approves human subjects research from the 27 Institutes/Centers across the NIH.

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Beth Kingsley, CRA

Yale University

Beth has been involved in Research Administration for over a decade and has worked all phases of the grant lifecycle. She currently manages Yale University's central office team tasked with drafting and negotiating outgoing subawards, conducting risk assessments, and monitoring Yale's subrecipients. Beth is active in both NCURA and FDP.

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Janice Werbinski, MD, FACOG

Western Michigan University

Dr. Werbinski, an ObGyn and Clinical Associate Professor Emerita at WMed, teaches sex-specific medicine there. Past President of AMWA, and co-founder of its Sex and Gender Women’s Health Collaborative, she advocates for fundamental change in women’s healthcare, considering the ways in which women’s and men’s risks, treatments, and outcomes differ.

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Thomas Norman, PhD

California State University, Dominguez Hills

Dr. Thomas Norman is a management professor at California State University, Dominguez Hills. He is the CSU Academic Senate Vice Chair and serves on the Innovation Incubator and CSUDH Foundation boards. He has two decades of private-sector experience at Procter & Gamble, Cargill, Sun Microsystems, US Bancorp and Wells Fargo.

In Our Learners' Words

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Charlotte H.

Undergraduate Research Assistant

The infographics helped a lot with summarizing the overall concepts and main points.

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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.

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Gowramma I.P.

Professor of Education

The detailed content and clarity, with examples and case studies, are what I liked best. The ability to switch between reading and A/V modes when required was also useful.

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Elisa B.

College Research Professor

The course was clear and direct. It did not provide information that was unnecessary and confusing.

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