Educational Requirement

 

Training in the Ethical Use of Humans in Research
The research community has a responsibility to ensure that the treatment of human subjects in research meets the highest ethical standard. Recognizing this responsibility, the National Institutes of Health requires NIH funding recipients to certify training in the ethical use of humans in research. Endorsing the goals of such training, the OSU Institutional Review Board (IRB) requires education in the protection of human research participants for all researchers conducting research involving human subjects, not just those receiving NIH funding.
 Effective July 30, 2009:

• OSU Researchers:  OSU study team members have two training options:

1. CITI Course: training modules and pass at a score of 80% or better.  Once a passing score is obtained for all required modules, the CITI system automatically generates a certificate of completion and forwards it to the OSU IRB.  No further documentation of completed education is required from OSU study team members.
2. NIH Course: this program does not automatically send a certificate to the IRB.  Once completed, study team members will need to save their certificates electronically and email them to the IRB.  

• Non-OSU Researchers:  Study team members who are not affiliated with OSU have three training options:

1. CITI Course
2. NIH Course
3. Provide an electronic copy of the certificate of education found acceptable by the IRB at their home institution. 

Approval of research projects will not be issued until documentation of training has been received by the IRB for all study team members.  Such documentation need only be submitted once.  Study team members for whom the IRB has already recorded training completion will not be required to provide additional documentation of training.