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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
2. Register as a New User.
3. Select your institution or organization: Scroll down to University of North Carolina Wilmington in the "Participating Institution" box. Leave all other boxes blank and hit the "Submit" button.
4. Enter Username and password: Make record of your username and password in case you need to continue a course on another day or enroll in new courses for a future project.
5. Enter name and email address.
6. Member Information: Select CITI Lab Animal Welfare Training for course you plan to take. Select the appropriate role (Principal Investigator, Co-PI, Research Assistant).
7. Select Groups/Enrollment Procedures: Scroll down to the Enrollment Questions. Leave questions 1 and 2 blank (these do not apply as they pertain to human subjects protection training). At question 3, check "Working with the IACUC" course. (If you are a member of the IACUC select "Essentials for IACUC Members")
8. Select any other courses appropriate for the species you will be working with.
9. Go to the Main Menu (Learner's Menu). The learner menu is your main tool for reviewing modules completed, updating user information, changing your username and password and adding new courses.
10. Go to the Grade Book to begin the courses.

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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