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The research community is responsible for ensuring the treatment of human subjects meets the highest ethical standards. The OSU IRB and HRPP require all human subject study team members to complete initial and continuing education in the protection of human research participants.
All study team members should complete the required ethics training prior to submitting an IRB application. Research ethics training must be renewed every three years. This can be accomplished by completing the initial or refresher course offered by CITI.
If you have an OSU affiliation (faculty, staff, or student), you must use your OSU email address for the primary and institutional addresses in the CITI registration. Employees must use [email protected] and students must use their ONID email address, (i.e. [email protected]). Use of other OSU email variations or personal email addresses will prevent your training records from appearing in Cayuse HE.
OSU study team members
Complete and pass CITI's Group 1 or Group 2 course of Human Subjects Protection (not Responsible Conduct of Research).
If you completed one of these courses at a previous institution, follow these steps to link your training to your OSU profile:
- Log in to CITI and update your email address to your OSU email address
- Add an affiliation with OSU, but do not remove your affiliation with your former institution.
- Scroll down to "Add a Course" and click on it to enroll in the OSU Human protections course; Group 1 or Group 2. Complete any remaining modules needed to fulfill OSU training requirements. You only need to complete the modules that OSU requires that were not required by the other institution.
Non-OSU study team members
There are two training options:
- OSU CITI Course (Group 1 or Group 2), or;
- Provide documentation of relevant training found acceptable by the IRB or ethics board at their home institution.
If a non-OSU study team member is unable to complete, or provide proof of completion, of the above described training (for reasons such as illiteracy or inability to use a computer) please contact the HRPP Office for additional options. CITI training is offered in English, Korean, Spanish, and French. PIs with study team members needing ethics training presented in other languages should contact the HRPP Administrator to discuss a plan for providing training for those researchers.
All individuals conducting FDA-regulated studies of drugs, devices, NIH-funded clinical trials
In addition to Group 1 or 2, complete and pass the Good Clinical Practice (GCP) training.
- OSU researchers can do this by logging in to CITI and add a course, selecting Group 5 (Drugs), Group 6 (Devices), and/or Group 7 (NIH-funded clinical trials) under Human Subjects Protection.
- Non-OSU study team members must complete GCP training through their home institution or they can add an OSU affiliation to their CITI account and then complete these courses.
Renew training
Research ethics training must be renewed every three years. This can be accomplished by completing the initial or refresher course offered by CITI.
Instructions
Remote advising by appointment
The HRPP offers remote advising appointments to students and faculty with questions or concerns about their proposed or ongoing study or the IRB review process. For graduate or undergraduate student projects, we encourage you to reach out early in the application process, but will gladly provide support at any point during the lifecycle of a study. We encourage you to consult with your PI prior to the appointment and may even require them to attend.
The HRPP cannot pre-review documents or the application beforehand. The appointments are limited in scope to answering specific questions about an IRB policy or the IRB review process for your study, so please be prepared to ask questions and discuss your study plan. Have your materials ready to share on-screen so that you can incorporate elements of the discussion into the application or attachments during the appointment.
To schedule advising appointments, please email us at [email protected]. Include a brief summary of your research plan and a description of your questions, or what you wish to address during your appointment. If you wish to discuss an application that is under review or is already approved, please also include the study number (e.g. 2025-123) and PI name in your email.
Upon request, HRPP staff can deliver class presentations. To request a presentation, please email us at [email protected]. Describe who will attend the presentation and what you would like the presentation to include or cover.
Upon request, HRPP staff can also deliver a workshop for groups of three or more faculty members on the following topics.
- Navigating Cayuse HE
- Completing an initial application or modification submission
- Drafting consent documents
To schedule a workshop or request a group training session, please email us at [email protected]. Describe who will attend the training, what you would like the training to address and anything else you wish for the training session to include.
Cayuse HE: Help and instructions
The HRPP has developed videos and screenshots to help investigators navigate the most common actions in Cayuse HE.
The HRPP can also assist researchers with navigating Cayuse HE upon request. Please email us at [email protected] to set up a quick appointment via Teams or Zoom to answer your Cayuse HE questions.