CITI Training

CITI Program Login

For those involved with human subjects research, Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) has become a national standard in regards to preparing researchers with the proper ethical, logistical, and regulatory training for research specific purposes. WSU maintains a subscription with CITI that allows WSU faculty, students, staff, and affiliates to complete trainings as necessary, free of charge. We have created this CITI guidance page that will assist you in your setup and understanding of the training requirements.

All personnel listed on the application will be considered “key personnel” and subject to the following CITI training requirements as applicable to the review level.

  • Human Subjects Research (HSR): Please choose from either the “Social/Behavioral Research” course or the “Biomedical” course as most applicable to the area of research.
  • Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR): Please choose from either the “Social/Behavioral Research” course or the “Biomedical” course as most applicable to the area of research.
  • Good Clinical Practice (GCP): ONLY required for NIH funded clinical trials.

CITI Requirements for Exempt Projects

Note: Training course marked as “*” will not be verified/tracked by the HRPP office. It will be the PI‘s responsibility to ensure competition and maintain record keeping of these courses or course equivalents.

CITI Requirements for Non-Exempt Projects

Note: Training course marked as “*” will not be verified/tracked by the HRPP office. It will be the PI‘s responsibility to ensure competition and maintain record keeping of these courses or course equivalents.

Applications will not be accepted from PIs who have not completed all the required trainings related to ethical concerns and regulatory and institutional requirements for the protection of human subjects. While complete applications can be reviewed if the PI’s trainings are both complete and valid at the time of submission, approval will not be granted until all key personnel listed on the application have completed and are current with the required trainings. As such, it is highly encouraged that all key personnel complete this training prior to submission. It will be the PI‘s responsibility to ensure competition of all initial and continuing required trainings for all key personnel (HRPP Manual: Section 12.3).

For further information why this training is required, please see the links below:

Step 1: Log in with WSU SSO

  • On the CITI website homepage, choose “Log in through my institution” and find Washington State University in the list.
  • Log in with your WSU credentials
  • For those that are unable to sign in with SSO, please see the subsequent section detailing registration steps.

Step 2: WSU course page

  • On your account homepage, under “Institutional Courses,” click on the blue “View Courses” next to “Washington State University.” This will take you to your WSU courses page.

Step 3: Adding a course

  • Scroll to the bottom of the page to a section titled “Learner Tools for Washington State University” and click “Add a Course.”

Step 4: Course selection – Basic Human Subjects/RCR/GCP

  • Follow the questions below to register for the necessary courses:
  • When prompted, select “Yes,” confirming that you will be working with live human beings, human samples, or data derived from human beings. Also select “Yes, I need/want to take the course on Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR).”
  • When prompted, indicate whether or not you have previously completed the basic course in the Protection of Human Research Subjects.
  • When prompted, select your learner group. Choose between: “Biomedical Research Investigators” or “Social & Behavioral Research Investigators”.
  • When prompted, select the RCR course that best fits your category of research: “Biomedical” or “Social or Behavioral”.
  • The Good Clinical Practice course is only required for biomedical research investigators conducting NIH research. Otherwise select “No, thanks”.
  • It will now ask if you wish to enroll in the IRB Chair or Institutional/Signatory Official, select “Not at this time”.
  • Finalize registration.

Step 1: Register

  • Go to the CITI Program website.
  • To select your organization affiliation, enter Washington State University.  This ensures that your certificate of completion will be viewable to the WSU IRB.
  • Review and agree to the Terms of Service.
  • Click “Continue.”

Step 2: Personal information

  • Enter your first and last name.
  • Enter and verify your WSU email address. If you are not a WSU faculty, staff, or student, enter your non-WSU email address.
  • Enter and verify a second email address.
  • Click “Continue.”

Step 3: Create your username and password

  • Create a username. Must be 4-50 characters, NOT case sensitive.
  • Create a password. Must be 8-50 characters, IS case sensitive.
  • Choose a security question and provide an answer that you will remember.
  • Click “Continue.”

Step 4: Country of residence

  • Select your country of residence.
  • Click “Continue.”

Step 5: Are you interested in the option of receiving Continuing Education Unit (CEU) credit for completed CITI Program courses?

  • CEU registration is not required for WSU course training. Select “No.”
  • Click “Continue.”

Step 6: Additional Information Requested by WSU

  • When prompted to enter your WSU ID number, enter a random 8-digit number instead (WE RECOMMEND 1+your phone number)

Troubleshooting:

The following resources may serve as a valuable adjunct to CITI training. However, they do not fulfill HRPP training requirements.