All investigators and research personnel participating in the conduct of human-subject research must complete an Southwest approved basic education program developed by the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI). The CITI program is comprehensive and provides case-based learning of ethical concepts and regulations in a web-based learning environment.

ABOUT THE CITI PROGRAM
The Collaborative IRB Training Initiative (CITI) program was developed by experts in the "IRB community" and consists of two “Basic” courses in the Protection of Human Research Subjects for Biomedical as well as for Social/Behavioral Research. Members of the Southwest clinical research community are required to take the Basic Biomedical course. The Biomedical course contains 16 modules. Each module includes reading material that can be read on screen or printed and a brief on-line quiz. The format is “open-book” - you may refer back to the text at any time while taking the quiz.

• Go to www.citiprogram.org to register for CITI online training.
• Once there,  click on the link “Register for CITI course”. 
• Under institution selection  select “Southwest Washington Medical Center (Southwest)” in the “All others” drop down box. 
• Next  create your own username and password and select the group you belong too which is: Biomedical Research Investigators 
• After going through registration process you should be ready and setup as a CITI Learner.

Completion of the CITI Basic Biomedical course takes approximately 4to 6 hours, however the program need not be completed at one time. Please Note: Registrants who begin the course but do not log in again for 30 days will be deleted from the system and will have to re-register. CMEs for completion of the CITI program are available through the University of Miami. Details are available on the CITI site.

NOTE: The Southwest IRB office automatically receives notice once you complete the CITI Basic and/or CITI Refresher courses. Please maintain a copy of your CITI completion report as your certificate of successfully completing the required CITI training course.

CITI/SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS:
Note that you will need to have MS Explorer 5.0 or higher (preferred) or Netscape Navigator 6.2 or higher, MS Word or other word processing software capable of viewing files in the RTF format and Adobe Acrobat Reader software, Version 5.0 or higher.