1. Danielle Davidov 12/07/2012

2.  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!

3.  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”

4.  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 2: Check “Conflict of Interest”  Question 3: Choose “Social & Behavioral Research Investigators (Human Subject Research)” or “Biomedical Research Investigators (Human Subject Research)”

5.  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

6.  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

7.  Click and Complete the The Integrity Assurance Statement before beginning the modules  Continue on to “The Belmont Report”  Read the module, then take the quiz at the end  Continue for each module listed

8.  You can take each quiz as many times as is necessary until you get a passing grade  Beware that the answers do switch around  After 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

9.  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