How to Complete CITI Human Subjects Training

Step 1

Navigate to the CITI website and select Register in the upper-right corner:

Step 2

You must affiliate with USA during this step. Type “University of South Alabama” into the provided search bar and select our institution:

Step 3

Click to check the Terms of Service/Privacy Policy and the Affirmation boxes. Then select the Create a CITI Program account button that appears:

Step 4

Enter the required information.

Note: You must use your South-affiliated email address during this step.

Complete the remaining steps and select Finalize Registration then complete the required USA affiliation information.

Step 5

To browse courses offered at USA, select View Courses:

 

Then select Add a Course at the bottom of the screen:

Step 6

Select Human Subjects Research courses within the provided list and click Next:

Step 7

Select the course option that is the most appropriate to your area of research and click Next:

Step 8

This course will now be added to your Active Courses list in CITI. Once finished, be sure to save your completed training certificate to your computer.

To learn how to link your completed training certificate to your IRBNet User Profile, please see our How to Link Training in IRBNet guidance document. This can be found by navigating to the main ORCA (Office of Research Compliance & Assurance) webpage, clicking the IRBNet button and locating this guidance within the IRBNet Basics section.