Are you interested in participating in research, but have little or no training? A good place to start is completion of your human subjects’ protection training. The ACCP Research Institute contracts with the CITI Program to offer research ethics education to all ACCP members, free of charge.

As of January 1, 2011, the ACCP Research Institute Board of Trustees and the ACCP PBRN central IRB require that all ACCP PBRN members who participate in research projects complete 10 modules within CITI Program Training. No other training is accepted. Members may access the training modules at http://www.citiprogram.org and select ACCP Research Institute as their institution. If you already use CITI Program Training at your site, you may also affiliate with the ACCP Research Institute and complete any of the PBRN’s required modules that you may not have completed already.

Upon successful completion of the required components, don’t forget to update your human subjects’ training certificate within your PBRNConnect portfolio. A list of FAQs regarding CITI Program Training is available on PBRNConnect under Step 3 at http://www.accpri.org/signin/index.aspx.

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