Inquiry and Innovation education:
All Duke Health personnel who participate in the conduct of research with human subjects i.e., are responsible for the study design, handling Protected Health Information (PHI), obtaining informed consent, collecting data or specimens, or contributing to the scientific development or execution of the study in a substantive, measurable way, must fulfill the CITI training requirement.
This requirement includes studies exempt from Institutional Review Board (IRB) review.
Accessing Your Duke Health CITI Account:
Duke University has several affiliations within CITI. You must affiliate with Duke Health to complete the required training for compliance with the IRB.
Make sure you set up your CITI account using your Duke Health Institutional address:
CITI guide to getting started:
Follow steps below or click here to download a copy
How to login to your Duke Health CITI account
- Log In Through “My Institution”
- Find Duke Health in the list
- Click on the link to go to your organization’s login page
- After you log in with your netID@duke.edu, you will be redirected to the CITI Program website
If you opened an account with CITI through a school or an institution external to Duke, you may affiliate your existing account with Duke Health. This allows previously completed research education modules to be transferred to your Duke account. You must complete outstanding research modules specific to Duke’s research education requirements.
Set up a CITI account and complete the required Duke modules.
Make sure you check YES to “I conduct research with human subjects” ( Staff get stuck here because they think if they are doing surveys with staff, it is not applicable. If you don’t answer yes, you will not get the required modules loaded into the account)
- Required Modules include:
- Research Involving Prisoners
- Vulnerable Subjects Research involving Children
- Vulnerable subjects-Research involving Pregnant Women, Fetuses and Neonates
- 12-14 BioMed Modules
As soon as the modules are completed, log in to the IRB’s system called iRIS. The iRIS system can be accessed by web using this iRIS link and logging in with your Duke Net ID and Password.
This step is essential so that CITI “talks to” iRIS and you are given the green light to meet Duke education requirements. This is how research education is validated and that each individual staff member is in compliance.
Our department will aid in determining if your project or research is applicable for IRB Submission.
Important!
When you have completed CITI training, you must log in to the IRB electronic system called iRIS.
The system, created by iMedRIS, is the electronic submission system utilized by the Duke research community to submit human participant research protocols online using a web browser. Protocols submitted are routed, reviewed, and finalized electronically.
The iRIS system can be accessed by web at the following link, iRIS Login with your Duke Net ID and Password to complete the process. CITI communicates with iRIS to know you have completed CITI training, and your name will be added to the master list of key personnel at Duke.
You do not need to submit your project; the Nursing Research Program will facilitate this process after Consultation.
