How to Register for CITI Training for First-Time Users

The training program can be accessed at citiprogram.org.

Once you are on the site, you will need to:

• Click on “New Users: Register Here”
• At next page, under #1, choose “Lankenau Institute for Medical Research” from the first drop-down menu. Ignore other drop-down menus.
• Provide required information for #s 2, 3 and 4, following directions to create your own user name and password and click “Submit”.
• Enter your name and email address, plus your email a second time. Submit.
• Enter your “Member Information” at the “*” signs.
• Under “Member Information”, the item “Which course do you plan to take?”(which has an “*” next to it), click on the drop-down menu:
  1. If you are working with Human Subjects and have a Biomedical orientation, choose either:
     • The Basic Course (“Biomedical Basic Human Subjects”), if you have not taken any coursework previously
     • The Refresher Course for those working with Human Subjects, “Biomedical Research Investigators and Key Personnel” if you are taking the course again after the 3-year expiration date.
  2. If you are working with Human Subjects and have a Social/Behavioral orientation, use the guidelines above for Biomedical.
  3. If you work with Animal Subjects, select “Laboratory Animal Welfare”.
  4. Select “Other”, if you will work/do work with “Data and Specimens Only”
  5. Select “Other”, if you will work/do work with “IRB Member and Staff”

1. Animal Subjects
2. Basic courses on Human Subjects
   • Group 1, Basic course, Biomedical
   • Group 2, Basic course, Social Behavioral
   • Group 3, Basic course, Data or Specimens Only
   • Group 4, Basic course, IRB Members and Staff
   • Refresher courses on Human Subjects, for those previously having completed the Basic courses---follow the pattern of the 4 groups, in #2, above.
3. On next page, under “My Courses”, see “Status” highlighted in red. Click on “Enter”.
4. Go to the next page and start taking the course module