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 Ethics Training offered online through HHS.gov (Lessons 1-3). All certificates generated by the online training programs must accompany the application for IRB review. HHS certificates are accepted for up to 5 years.

HHS ethics training instructions: Go to the official HHS/OHRP Human Research Protection Training:HHS.gov

  1. Complete the Required Lessons:

    Lesson 1: What is Human Subjects Research? (35 minutes, Quiz included)

    Lesson 2: The Regulations that Protect Humans in Research (90 minutes, Quiz included)

    Lesson 3: What are IRBs (45 minutes, Quiz included)

  2. Save and Upload Your Completion Certificates. At the end of each lesson, you will be given the option to download a completion certificate. Save each certificate as a PDF or take a screenshot. Email your certificates to irb@pitzer.edu 

(HHS ethics training are also required for Faculty Only: 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.