Transcript CITI Program Overview

CITI Program Overview
Paul Braunschweiger Ph.D.
CITI Co-Founder
June 2000 DHHS Mandates Training in
Human Subjects Protection
March 2000
Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI)
10 Initial Collaborating Organizations
What is the CITI Program?
• CITI is a volunteer organization whose goal is to
develop and distribute high quality, peer reviewed
educational resources designed to raise awareness
to the Responsible Conduct of Research for all
members of the research team.
• CITI maintains an educational website where
participating organizations can design and roll out a
customized curriculum for their investigators,
students staff and administrators.
www.citiprogram.org
CITI – Program
6-7-2010
Participating Institutions and Organizations (~1132)
CITI Developer Group (~70)
L.A.W.
RCR
CITI Executive Advisory Committee
Founders
Brazil
PRC
Japan
Latin America
Intl.
Caribbean
Africa Taiwan
India
Canada
CITI Editorial Board (15)
HSRP
Biosafety
GCP
CITI Administration – Office of Research Education, University of Miami
University of Miami Medical Information Technology
CITI “Help Desk”
• Resolve learner problems
– Registrations
– Technical Issues
• Institution set up support
– Program Curriculum
– Institutional page setup
• Coordinator Support
– Changes in contact
information
– Implement Modifications.
– Report Utilities
305 243-7970
[email protected]
CITI Courses
• Human Subjects Protection
– Biomedical Sciences
– Social and behavioral Sciences
– International Research
• Good Clinical Practice & ICH
– 14 modules
• HIPS
– 18 modules
• Lab Animal Welfare
– Basic Courses
– Species Specific Courses
• Responsible Conduct of
Research
– 105 modules and case studies
– 4 Disciplines
• Bio-Safety
CITI Program Growth
9-2000 - 5-2010
Participating Institutions/organizations
10 year growth rate = 140 new sites/year
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2000 2001 2002 2003 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
Thousands
Learners Completing a CITI Course
Monthly Course site usage
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5-2004
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5-2009
5-2010
New Utilities of Institutional
Coordinators
Knowledge Base
Help Desk Chat
Webinars
CITI Knowledge Base
• CITI Program offers a searchable FAQ utility.
• Users can submit Queries from the knowledgebase page
• Topics cover many topics navigation to information for CITI
administrators.
• More than 150 users/month visited the page
• It can be accessed directly:
http://citiprogram.supportcenterpro.com/knowledgebase or
in the CITI site from the contact us page:
https://www.citiprogram.org/contactus.asp?language=engli
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Helpdesk Chat
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Implemented April 2010
Well received
Average of 20 sections per week
Chat utility permits quick answers to questions
Only CITI Program during business hours.
It can be accessed directly:
http://citiprogram.supportcenterpro.com/liveagent/
chat/ or in the CITI site from the contact us page:
https://www.citiprogram.org/contactus.asp?langu
age=english
Webinars
CITI Help
Desk Personnel
How to get the most from the CITI Program
 New and experienced CITI institutional
administrators
 Administrators of any participating institutions can
take advantage of these training sessions.
 Since December 2009
 Total of 55 sections with 725 participants were conducted
 High level of satisfaction with the CITI webinars.
 Information of how to enroll can be found at:
http://citiprogram.supportcenterpro.com/knowledgeb
ase/citi-administrators/.citi-administratorwebinars.html
Absent: Richard Sprince, Rachel Cheung, Lucas Canning.
Additional slide shows about CITI
and learner feedback about the
program are available in the FAQ
pages