Danielle Davidov
12/07/2012
 The
purpose of CITI Training is to prepare you
to conduct research with human subjects
 This
training will educate you on the
protection of human research subjects and
research ethics
 You
must complete this training and turn in
your completion report before you can
conduct research at WVU!

Go to: https://www.citiprogram.org

Click on the “New Users: Register Here” Link

Under the Institution selection, scroll to “West
Virginia University” under “Participating
Institutions”

Create a Username and Password (using your
Microsoft Outlook Email username will allow us
to keep better track of your training)

Fill in the rest of the information and click
“Submit”
 You
will now be asked to select which
training course you wish to take by answering
several questions:
 Question 1: Responsible Conduct of
Research—LEAVE BLANK
 Question
 Question
2: Check “Conflict of Interest”
3: Choose “Social & Behavioral
Research Investigators (Human Subject
Research)” or “Biomedical Research
Investigators (Human Subject Research)”
 After
you answer Question 3, leave the rest
of the questions blank and click “Continue”
at the bottom of the page.
 You
should now be in the CITI website’s Main
Menu
 The
courses you previously selected should
be under “My Courses”
 Click
“Enter” under “Status” beside the
course
 Now
you are ready to work through the
modules
 CITI
saves your progress after you complete
each module quiz, so you can log out and log
in multiple times to complete your training
 You
do not have to complete the training in
one sitting
 Click
and Complete the The Integrity
Assurance Statement before beginning the
modules
 Continue
 Read
on to “The Belmont Report”
the module, then take the quiz at the
end
 Continue
for each module listed
 You
can take each quiz as many times as is
necessary until you get a passing grade
 Beware
 After
that the answers do switch around
your first stab at the quiz, if you did
not have a high enough score to pass, click
“view module again” and re-read the module
to find the correct answer to the quiz
questions
 After
you have scored a passing grade on
each module, you will have completed CITI
Training
 After
you have finished, you are ready to be
added to IRB protocols and conduct human
subjects research