TCNJ’s expectations for fulfilling the human subjects research training requirement
- All research team members involved in the design, conduct, recording, or reporting of an active research study must be certified through our qualifying training provider (CITI), and the certification can be no more than 3 years old. When you access the CITI website you can search for our institution and log in using your TCNJ credentials. Our institution will NOT be listed in the dropdown menu however, below that drop down there is a button that states “See our full list of SSO-enabled organizations”, you will need to click this button in order to search for TCNJ. The Social & Behavioral Research – Basic Course is required for IRB submission. The one exception to this is for biomedical engineering students/faculty who may instead complete the Biomedical Research Training.
- Administrative Staff are not required to complete training.
- Human subjects research training must be renewed every three (3) years upon initial certification expiration, as long as the study team member is involved on an active study.
- If your certification becomes >3 years old during the course of an ongoing study you must submit a new certification through the link below to maintain active certification status. An active study that has researchers with lapsed certifications may be suspended by the IRB until current certifications are received.
You no longer need to upload your CIT certification via Qualtrics. CITI will autofeed your certification status into OneAegis. You will not be able to submit an application unless there is an active CITI certification for every researcher designated for your study.
Human Subjects Certification FAQ’s
NIH Funded Researchers Additional Human Subjects Certification Requirement
Investigators and all key personnel who will be involved in the design or conduct of NIH-funded human subjects research must fulfill the protection of human subjects education requirement. One way to achieve this is by completing the Human Research Protection Training offered by the HHS Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP). For additional information, please see the Human Subjects Research FAQs. Additional information about the requirement for education on the protection of human subjects policy can be found here.
NSF Funded Researchers Additional Human Subjects Certificate Requirement
Under the new requirements, all faculty and other senior personnel named on NSF proposals must complete RCR training. Additionally, postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduates are still required to complete RCR training before conducting NSF-supported research. These requirements are outlined in the National Science Foundation’s latest Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG).
Steps for registering for CITI training:
- Click on the “USING CITI” link above. Click “Register”
- Find “The College of New Jersey” under Search for Organization box.
- Click “I agree to terms of service” button.
- Decide on ID, password, etc., to complete registration. If you are collaborating with a non-TCNJ researcher who needs to complete a human subjects training, they may also use the TCNJ CITI account and log in using their own personal address. If you have a non-TCNJ person use the CITI training as a component of your research together, please send an email to srcompliance@tcnj.edu with the affiliates name and institutional/organizational affiliation each time any person who uses CITI that is not a TCNJ employee or student.