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Ongoing education in the ethical treatment of research participants, the components of informed consent, and the handling of research materials and data is an important component of research and scholarship. We require that all investigators—especially student investigators—involved in research undergo formal training in current thought and issues in this area.

Required Training

Instructions for CITI Program Human Subject Research Training

1. Go to the external-based website www.citiprogram.org
2. If you have already used CITI for any training (even at another institution), use your existing username and password, and select “Add a course…” from your homepage (see #7 below).
3. If you have not used CITI before, click on the “Register” Link on the home page.
4. Select “Bard College” from the drop down list of Participating Institutions in Step 1.
5. It is recommended that your username be a combination of your first and last name (for example, johnsmith or jsmith), or another username that is easy to remember.
6. Use your Bard email address as the preferred email address.
7. Select “Add a Course”.
8. For Question #1 click on “Researchers and Staff”. For Questions 2-4, you can click on “Not at this time”. Then scroll to the bottom of the page and hit “Submit”.
9. After hitting Submit, the site will bring you to a page with your courses. Click on “Start now” to begin.
10. Lastly, the trainings have “Required” and “Supplemental” Modules. The Supplemental modules are presented to offer you more information in areas you may find interesting or that may be related to your research; you are not required to take these modules.
11. Please save your certificate of completion and submit it to [email protected]

www.citiprogram.org

Instruction for Transferring your CITI RCR training from another institution

1. Go to the external-based website www.citiprogram.org
2. If you have previously completed course work through CITI program while at another institution, you may transfer your completed work to Bard.
3. Log-on as a registered user.
4. Once you are on the Main Page, select the red link “Affiliate with another Institution.”
5. Select “Bard College” from the drop down list of Participating Institutions.
6. Please submit your certificate of completion to [email protected]

Contact the IRB

Bard's Institutional Review board is made up of faculty from the College plus administrative and community representatives. If you have any questions about the IRB process or your specific proposal, please contact the IRB chair ([email protected]). The current members of the Bard College IRB are: Tom Hutcheon (chair, [email protected] or [email protected]), Ziad Abu-Rish, Andrew Bush, Theresa Law, Monique Segarra, Peter Gadsby (administrative representative), Yuka Suzuki (administrative representative), and Mark Moreland (community representative).
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