Online Courses & Tools

Inventory of RCR materials is now available online at: http://career.ucsf.edu/grad-students-postdocs/research-ethics

Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI)

http://www.citiprogram.org/
The Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) was founded in March 2000 as a collaboration between the University of Miami and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center to develop a web based training program in human research subjects protections.

This program requires subscription (except RCR). It includes coursework in:

  • Basic Courses in the Protection of Human Research Subjects.
    • Biomedical Focus
    • Social and Behavioral Focus.
    • Refresher Courses
  • Good Clinical Practice Course.
  • Health Information Privacy and Security Course (HIPS)
  • Laboratory Animal Welfare Courses for investigators and IACUC Members
  • Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR).

The RCR course is available free of charge at https://www.citiprogram.org/rcrpage.asp

Contemporary Science, Values and Animal Subjects in Research

http://ori.dhhs.gov/education/products/ncstate/index.htm
This site, developed at North Carolina State University, is an Office of Research Integrity (ORI) sponsored project. It is intended to be both a learning tutorial and a clearing house. Ethics and the use of animals in research is an enormous topic: this site is an introduction both to the central issues and the information resources available.

Columbia University’s online RCR courses

http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/rcr/index.html
COURSE 1: Conflicts of Interest
COURSE 2: Mentoring
COURSE 3: Responsible Authorship and Peer Review
COURSE 4: Research Misconduct
COURSE 5: Collaborative Science
COURSE 6: Data Acquisition and Management