NEXT ORSSP WORKSHOP (OPTIONAL)

Title: IACUC Procedures and Compliance
Instructor: Leanne Prete
Date: Upon Request
Time:
Place:
Who May Attend: Administrators, Faculty, Staff, Students
Description: IACUC requirements will be reviewed, common compliance problems will be highlighted, and strategies for avoiding non-compliance will be discussed.

REQUIRED training for research team members and IACUC members:

CITI Online Training for Lab Animal Welfare

PLEASE SEE BELOW FOR INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO PROPERLY REGISTER ON THIS SITE.

FOR USERS WHO ALREADY COMPLETED THE researchtraining.org COURSE: All records from researchtraining.org have been transferred to the CITI site. If you do not remember the username and password you used on the previous site, please contact Leanne Prete at 962-7774 or pretel@uncw.edu. She can provide your registration information so that you can access your previous records.

FOR NEW USERS: Please follow these instructions.

1. Go to CITI Online Training for Lab Animal Welfare

   New Learners: If you never registered before on the CITI site, register as a New User.

   Registration Steps:
   1. Select your institution or organization - In the Participating Institutions box, please scroll down to University of North Carolina Wilmington. Skip the other boxes.
   2. Select your Username and Password - follow instructions to select an acceptable username and password. Make note of them so that you can complete the course in multiple sessions if needed.
   3-4. Enter your name and email address and select the Submit button

   Course Registration:
   1. Which course do you plan to take? - Select Laboratory Animal Welfare.
   2. Role in human subjects & Animal Welfare research - Select the most appropriate role. Appropriate roles for students might be research assistant (if you are helping a faculty member on a research project), or student researcher (if a faculty member will mentor you on your own graduate or undergraduate research project).

   Citi Course Enrollment Procedure:
   Scroll down to the CITI Course Enrollment Questions.

   Skip Questions 1 and 2 unless you will also work on research that involves human subjects.

   Question 3. Select "Working with the IACUC Course". If there are any species-specific courses available select any that apply.

   Question 4. You can skip this question unless your instructor has assigned this as a course requirement. The Responsible Conduct of Research Course is optional at this time and strongly encouraged. Link to more information about Responsible Conduct of Research at UNCW.

   Select the Submit button.

   A screen will appear to confirm that you selected the correct institution. University of North Carolina Wilmington should appear. Select the "No" button unless you wish to register with another institution.

   The main menu screen will appear. This will show you the courses for which you are enrolled. Select "Enter" under the Status column to begin the course. You must score at least 80% overall on the course before you are permitted to view your completion certificate. This screen is your main tool for reviewing modules completed, updating user information, changing your username and password and adding new courses.

   Returning Learners: If you are returning to the site to continue working on your modules or if you are returning to change to a different learner group, login with the username and password you already have. The Learner's menu allows you to choose a new learner group or go to the grade book to see which modules you have already completed.

If you have any confusion or difficulty with these instruction, please contact Lee Prete at 962-7774 or pretel@uncw.edu.

Optional training opportunities for research team members:

• UNCW Environmental Health & Safety Office Training Information
• PHS Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals Tutorial
• Office of Research Integrity's Contemporary Science, Values and Animal Subjects in Research (Tutorials and Clearinghouse operated by NCSU)

Who needs to complete the required online IACUC training?

Any person on the research team who will handle live, vertebrate animals must, at a minimum, complete the "Working with the IACUC" training program offered by the University of Miami's Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI).  PIs may require members of the research team to complete additional courses. The IACUC will not review a protocol until training documentation is on file at ORSSP.  This requirement includes any faculty, staff, students, or collaborators from other institutions. The training page of this website provides instructions on how to properly register for the CITI course.

How often do I need to renew my training?

At this time there is no expiration to your completion certificate.  However, since the new training course has refresher courses available, this may change in the future. Some institutions require refresher training after 3 years, so if you conduct research at another institution they may consider your training to be expired.

Who do I send my completion certificate to?

If you are a research assistant on a project, the principal investigator may ask you to provide him or her with a hard copy of the completion certificate. You are strongly encouraged to keep a hard copy for your own records as well.

You are no longer required to submit a hard copy of your completion certificate to ORSSP if you complete the CITI training and identify the University of North Carolina Wilmington as the participating institution. When you complete the course for which you registered, the regulatory compliance officer will receive an email notification directly from CITI. This notification is considered "official" documentation of your training.

However, if you completed the CITI training through a participating institution other than the University of North Carolina Wilmington, ORSSP will not be able to access those records. There are several options available for this situation and you should contact the regulatory compliance officer, Leanne Prete, to see what is best for you (962-7774 or pretel@uncw.edu).

Are IACUC members required to complete additional training?

Yes. The IACUC Member learner group has more modules than any other group. IACUC members must complete all of the required modules. If a new IACUC member previously completed the "Working with the IACUC" course, the IACUC member only needs to complete the additional modules required for IACUC members.

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