Compliance Training

• Training Courses Offered on CITI

• Here is a list of the compliance trainings available to researchers at William Paterson University through CITI.

  COURSE TITLE	DURATION	DESCRIPTION	IMPORTANT NOTES
  Conflict of Interest - Public Health Service - Basic	5 Modules	The COI Basic course discusses the PHS regulations on financial conflicts of interest and an investigator’s responsibilities relating to the disclosure of “Significant Financial Interests.”	It is designed to help learners satisfy training requirements associated with the PHS regulations on financial conflicts of interest.
  Research Security Training (Combined)	1 Hour (1 Module)	Condensed version of NSF training. The Research Security courses provide the knowledge and tools necessary to protect against risks to the global research ecosystem and undue foreign influence.	NSF, NIH, DOE, DOW, and USDA all recognize completion of the condensed module as compliant with their respective RST requirements
  Export Compliance (EC) Basic	11 Modules	EC Basic includes an introduction to export compliance, as well as information focused on export compliance as it relates to biosafety, operational departments, international shipping, purchasing, international and foreign waters, collaborations and U.S. sanctions programs, distance education, and technology.	It is designed for use by investigators, members of the research team, key personnel across operational departments, and others who work with or may be responsible for federally controlled devices, materials, or technologies.
  Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) Basic	12 Modules	This course provides an in-depth review of the core RCR topics by discipline (Physical Science, Biomedical, Engineers, etc...) including authorship, collaborative research, conflicts of interest, human subjects, and research misconduct.	The National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) require certain categories of researchers to receive RCR training. However, RCR is increasingly viewed as an essential component of training, regardless of a researcher’s source of funding.
  Human Subject Research - (Social-Behavioral-Educational)	13 Modules	This SBE-focused comprehensive course provides an expanded training covering not only major topical areas but also many concepts that are specific to types of research, roles in the protection of human subjects, and advanced modules on informed consent topics, vulnerable populations, big data research, mobile apps research, and disaster and conflict research.	It offers historic and current information on regulatory and ethical issues important to the conduct of research involving human subjects. This course has been updated to reflect the 2018 Requirements of the Common Rule.
  Human Subject Research - (Biomedical)	15 Modules	This biomedical-focused comprehensive course provides an expanded training covering not only major topical areas but also many concepts that are specific to types of research, roles in the protection of human subjects, and advanced modules on informed consent topics, vulnerable populations, stem cell research, phase I research, data and safety monitoring, big data research, mobile apps research, and disaster and conflict research.	It offers historic and current information on regulatory and ethical issues important to the conduct of research involving human subjects. This course has been updated to reflect the 2018 Requirements of the Common Rule.

• Creating A New CITI Account

• Creating A New CITI Account

  If you are new to CITI Program, you will need to Register (create) a new account, including a CITI Program username and password. NOTE: You must use your William Paterson email for registration.

  To register a new account, visit the CITI homepage, https://www.citiprogram.org/, then click on the Register button.​
  
  

  

  Next choose, "Select Your Organization Affiliation" and search for "William Paterson University".

  

  Click the Create a CITI Program Account button to continue.

  

  Complete the registration steps 

  • Step 2: Creating log in credentials
  • Step 3: Adding a Security Question and Answer
  • Step 4: Adding Country of Residence [Optional: Connecting your ORCID iD]

  

  After clicking the Continue Registration button you will be redirected to:

  • Select Continuing Education Credit preferences
  • Provide the information requested by your organization for affiliation and reporting purposes
  • Select your courses from the available curricula offered through your organization. You will be presented with a series of questions or options to enable you to enroll in the courses appropriate to the curriculum selected by your institution.

• Logging In - Institutional Affiliation

• Logging In

  If you have already created an account with a CITI Program username and password:

  Go to https://www.citiprogram.org/login  ​or click the login button from the homepage. 

  

  Institutional Affiliation

  After logging in, your starting point is the My Courses page. 
  Your courses are listed by institution. 
  You may affiliate with more than one institution. If there are modules duplicated between the course requirements of multiple institutions, you will only be required to take those once, and credit will be transferred.

  

  If William Paterson University not appear on the list, click on Add Affiliation. 
  
  If you wish to remove one of the listed affiliations, click on Remove Affiliation. If you remove an affiliation, you will still have access to records of courses completed for that institution. You will not be able to take any new courses under for that institution unless you add it as a new affiliation.