Division of Research

How to obtain a training certificate?

The Human Participant Protections Education for Research Teams tutorial presents common concepts, principles, and issues related to protection of human participants. It will help you and your team identify research activities that involve human participants, and help you understand how to protect the rights and welfare of all human participants involved in research.

In order to gain access to the human subject training module you must:

1. Go to the following web page: http://phrp.nihtraining.com/users/login.php
2. Click on the "register" link. Provide the information in the required fields on the registration form. Please note your username and password for your records as the IRB Office will be unable to supply this information to you at a later date.
3. There are seven (7) chapters with an exercise at the end of each.
4. You must complete all seven chapters in order to receive a certificate. Please print your certificate and keep copies for future submissions to the IRB.

The IRB Office will also accept a training certificate from a comparable human subject training module if you have obtained certification at another university or college (e.g., CITI Collaborative IRB Training Initiative).

IMPORTANT!! Additional Occupational Health & Safety training may also be required for research and teaching involving human subjects. Information can be obtained by contacting the Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) Department or visiting the EH&S website.

Investigators and Key Personnel have the option of completing the CITI IRB Training Course instead of taking the PHRP IRB Training Course (mentioned at the top of this page). Please note, you are not required to complete both the CITI IRB Training and the PHRP IRB Training. If you would like to access the CITI IRB Training Courses, then please follow the directions below:

1. Go to http://www.citiprogram.org
2. As a "new" user, you will need to click "Register Here" to register for the training course
3. Select "Florida International University" from the Participating Institutions and click "submit"
4. Create a unique username and password and click "submit"
5. Enter your personal information (first name, last name, email) and click "submit"
6. Continue entering additional information (gender, degree, etc.) and click "submit">
7. You should now be able to access the training courses menu.
8. Please note that there are several different types of courses available on the CITI Training website, so please make sure you select one of the Human Subjects Research courses in order to satisfy the IRB training requirement. The Human Subjects Research course options will be listed as question #2 when you reach the CITI Enrollment web page.

You will have the opportunity to print a Training Certificate upon completion of the training course and exam.

Note: Completion of the Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) Training Course from the CITI website does not satisfy the FIU IRB Training requirement. All investigators conducting research involving human subjects must complete the PHRP IRB Training or the CITI IRB Training. The CITI RCR Training is not considered an IRB Training Course.