Stephen F. Austin State University

CITI Training

In order to facilitate ethical training for faculty and students conducting research, SFA has purchased a license to the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI), a comprehensive educational program that is used nationally and worldwide to identify and serve the needs of research communities through "high quality, peer-reviewed, web-based educational materials."

Accessing CITI Training

Instructions for Accessing CITI Training:

Biosafety/ Biosecurity Training

The CITI training is available for SFA research compliance committee members, faculty, staff, and students.

https://about.citiprogram.org/en/series/biosafety-and-biosecurity-bss/

Specifically, please choose the following courses:

  1. Biomedical Responsible Conduct of Research
  2. Institutional Biosafety Committee Member Training

CITI Training Completion Certificates

Principal investigators, co-investigators, and any student or other assistant who will be involved with sample recruitment and other sampling procedures, data collection and identifiable (via direct or indirect identifiers) data and/or data analyses ARE ENCOURAGED to take the training and send the CITI Training Completion Certificate to the IRB along with submission of research protocol to the IRB.* The training is currently OPTIONAL for IRB submission. However, the SFA IRB highly recommends all personnel involved in research to get this training every 3 years. If you have any questions about CITI training, please contact the IBC.

*Please submit the applicable CITI Training Completion Certificates for ALL team members along with your IRB application.