1. Offices
  2. Dean of Faculty
  3. Institutional Review Board

Required Ethics Training

Principal investigators and all individuals involved in the research must complete the CITI Ethics Training offered online through CITI Program. However, faculty have an alternative option to complete ethics training through HHS.gov (Lessons 1-3). All certificates generated by the online training programs must accompany the application for IRB review.

CITI and HHS certificates are accepted for up to 5 years.

CITI ethics training instructions:

  1. Log in to your CITI account at https://www.citiprogram.org/?pageID=668
  2. If you don’t have a CITI account OR if your existing account is not already linked to CGU, you will need to do the following:
    1. Click on “Log In Through My Organization” listed at the top menu.
    2. Next, type “Claremont Graduate University” as your “Organization Affiliation” and select “Claremont Graduate University” from the automated drop-down list.  Then click “Continue to SSO Login / Instructions.”
    3. From there, you will be directed to authenticate using your college credentials on The Claremont Colleges Central Authentication Service.
    4. Next, you will be prompted to indicate whether or not you already have a CITI account. If you don’t, you will go through the process of creating one. If you do, you will be able to link your account with the Claremont Colleges.
  3. Go to “My Courses” and scroll to the bottom
  4. Click on “Add a Course”
  5. You will be asked a series of 6 questions that will help you determine which courses to take (make sure you are enrolled in Social and Behavioral Research – Basic/Refresher)
  6. Competed courses will show a “view – print – share” option. You can either “view/print” or “copy link”. If you forward the link to me, I will be able to access your completion report. 

NOTE: All of the CITI program online course modules are self-paced and may be interrupted and resumed. Training time varies depending on your prior preparation and other factors, usually entailing up to nine hours. There is no cost to CGU-affiliated applicants for the use of this site.

HHS ethics training instructions (Faculty Only):

As an alternative to CITI trainings, Faculty have the option to complete ethics training through HHS.gov.

Lessons 1-3 are required.

NOTE: HHS.gov does not save progress or history of certificate completion. Make sure to save certificates offered at the end of each lesson.