Link CITI training records for all investigators

The Principal Investigator, any UMD Co-Investigators, and the Faculty Advisor (if the PI is a student) are required to link their CITI training record to the project.

If the project will have Co-Investigators (anyone who will interact with human subjects and/or their identifiable information for the purposes of research), they will also need to link their completed CITI training to the project.

External Co-Investigators (e.g. people who are not faculty, student, or staff at UMD) do not need to create an IRBNet account to link their training. The PI may upload a copy of their CITI training (or equivalent) as a Supporting Document.

If the PI is a student, the Faculty Advisor must link their completed CITI training certificate to the project.

UMD-affiliated Co-Investigators and Faculty Advisors will need to follow the same steps for completing the training (Step 1) and adding the training to their IRBNet User profile (Step 3).

How to link training certificates

1. Once your CITI Training is added to your User Profile, click the My Projects tab.
2. Click on the title of the project you would like to link the CITI training record to.
3. Go to the Designer page. You should see the documents you have already uploaded to the project. Underneath these documents, click the blue Link/Unlink Training Records button.
4. On the next page, your CITI Training records should appear.
   • If your training does not appear, it must first be added to your User Profile in the upper right corner of the IRBNet screen
   • If Co-Investigators and Faculty Advisors have at least “Write” access to the project and have added their CITI training records to their User profiles, their CITI Training records should also appear.
   • Anyone with access to the project can link CITI training to an individual project for themselves and others on the project.
5. You will need to click the box on the left of each training record for each investigator. Then click save. Your training records should appear as linked on your project.

NOTE: You must link your training with EACH project of which you are a research team member. If the IRB Office receives your application without the CITI Completion Report of each research team member, the project will be unlocked so you may add them before we continue with the review process.