Mary DePew Resource Center for Research Writing: IRB

The Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI Program) is mandatory training for CUC students who are participating in research. Students are to use the following guidance document (PDF below) for more information on how to login using their CUC credentials in order to access this training.

The training consists of many modules and can take up to eight hours. You do not need to complete all modules at one time. Pace yourself, if necessary.

The Belmont Report was written by the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research. The Commission, created as a result of the National Research Act of 1974, was charged with identifying the basic ethical principles that should underlie the conduct of biomedical and behavioral research involving human subjects and developing guidelines to assure that such research is conducted in accordance with those principles. Informed by monthly discussions that spanned nearly four years and an intensive four days of deliberation in 1976, the Commission published the Belmont Report, which identifies basic ethical principles and guidelines that address ethical issues arising from the conduct of research with human subjects.