Human Participant Use Training

 

All investigators and key personnel who participate in the design and/or the conduct of human subjects research (including exempt research) must be appropriately trained in the protection of human subjects. The University uses the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) web-based courses to satisfy this requirement for UMBC researchers.

 

 

See a brief slideshow on how to register for the CITI course

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Download the instructions for using the CITI course

 

Select a Learner Group - If you are unsure of which group to select, or feel your research falls within two of these learner areas, please contact Tim Sparklin in the Human and Animal Research Protections Office at 410-455-2737, email sparklin@umbc.edu or send an IM message to HARPO246.

· Social & Behavioral Minimal Risk Research

This module is designed for faculty, staff, graduate students, and undergraduate students involved in minimal risk research, who plan to submit for expedited review and who have not previously completed the UMBC IRB training program.

 

Undergraduate students planning independent studies or honors theses involving minimal risk research or plan to become a member of a research team or lab and graduate students who plan to become a member of a research team or lab or contemplating master’s thesis or dissertation research will be required to complete the core modules of the Social & Behavioral training.

 

· Data or Specimens Only Research

This module is designed for faculty, staff, graduate students, and undergraduate students involved in less than minimal risk research that uses pre-existing data, records and/or specimens and when such data may fall within the exempt (subcategory 4) or expedited categories of review (Category 5).

 

· Researchers conducting less than minimal risk research

This module is designed for faculty, staff, graduate students, and undergraduate students involved in less than minimal risk research, which entails no known physical, emotional, psychological, or economic risk, to nonvulnerable subjects.  Students who are enrolled in PSYC 332 or related undergraduate research methods courses will take this module for training.

 

· IRB Investigator Refresher Module

These modules are designed for faculty, staff, graduate students, and undergraduate students whose UMBC IRB training certification has expired and are contemplating continuing research with human participants. Investigators will have received a notice from HARPO regarding re-certification and be instructed on the appropriate module to take.

 

Investigators who have completed the CITI training program will receive a notice at 4 years and 9 months past their original CITI certification date to complete the appropriate refresher module.

 

· IRB Members

This module is designed for new IRB members or current IRB members who last underwent the IRB training program more than 5 years ago.

                                    

 

Last updated 06/05/2008