Training

Transfer CITI Training from Another Organization

• How can I transfer CITI training completed at Henry Ford Health (HFH) to MSU?

  Completion of the HFH required COI training modules may also satisfy your MSU COI training requirement. If you have already completed your HFH COI training, you may receive credit at MSU, however you will need to follow the instructions below in order to update your CITI Programs account.

  Senior Key Personnel required to take the COI training are expected to be an MSU appointed faculty member (with an MSU NetID for access to MSU online systems) via the HFH+MSU partnership. If you do not yet have a NetID with @msu.edu email, contact your MSU PI or project administrator. Do not create a GuestID account.

  1. CITI Program Institution Affiliation
     Update Your CITI Program Affiliation status to include MSU.* Log in to CITIprogram.org:
     1. Select Add an Affiliation and enter “Michigan State University (See below* if you have MSU affiliation already)
     2. Enter your @msu.edu email address into that affiliation profile (different from primary or secondary email fields).
        
        
  2. CITI Course Enrollment
     Enroll in the MSU FCOI course even if you have completed the CITI course for HFH. (See below** for differences in institutional requirements)
     1. Find and select Add a Course.
     2. For Questions 5, select FCOI. You may answer No to all other questions.
     3. Click into the FCOI course to complete the single module, or to verify you completed it within the past 4 years.
        
        
  3. MSU Ability LMS
     Verify you have the Financial Conflict of Interest (FCOI) for US DOE & PHS Awards track added in the Ability system. This will be listed in your Requirements tile. Use the green + icon to open a list of tracks and select FCOI from the alphabetical list.
     
     CITI module completions will update your completion status (within a week after your CITI Program account is updated (a) institutional affiliation set to MSU, b) you@msu.edu is added, and c) the CITI module/s is complete).
     
     The Ability system feeds into other MSU systems (Kuali/KR and Click).

  
  *If you already have an affiliation to MSU, select the Edit Profile button to verify you are using your @msu.edu email address. (If you change your main profile alternate email address to MSU, your records may be received into the MSU Ability system the following week, but HFH may stop receiving your records.)

  **Henry Ford requires 3 CITI modules (covers HF COI and GCP). MSU requires only 1 CITI module for COI (which is 1 of the 3 in HF course group). Credit for training within one institution’s CITI group can be given to another institution with some changes to your CITI program account.

• How can I transfer CITI training completed at a different institution to MSU?
  1. The Ability FCOI track automatically calculates whether the training you previously took meets MSU’s requirements.
     
     
  2. Currently, the following courses, if taken within the last four years, will transfer:
     1. CITI-2261-WBT (CITI Financial Conflicts of Interest: Overview Investigator Responsibilities and Coi Rules)
     2. CITI-2603-WBT (CITI Conflict of Interest Course – Introduction (COI-Basic))
     3. CITI-2781-WBT (CITI Conflicts of Commitment and Conscience (COI-Basic))
     4. RCR-1060-SCO (Financial Conflict of Interest (FCOI) OBS)
     5. RCR-6460-ILT (RCR Conflict of Interest)
        
        
  3. If it has been more than four years since you took one of these courses, you will need to take MSU’s assigned CITI Course.
     
     
  4. If you do not have one of the accepted course records on your Ability transcript, you will receive an email notice to complete training.

  
  You can merge your CITI account from a previous institution. We cannot accept paper certificates in lieu of a digital record at this time.

Frequently-Asked Questions

• How do I make sure I get credit for taking my FCOI training in CITI?

  There are two steps to make sure you get credit for taking the training.  First, you must be assigned the FCOI “track” in Ability.  Second, you must take the training in CITI.  If you skip the first step, OSP will not receive notice that you have completed the training.

• How do I know if I have been assigned the FCOI Track in Ability?

  If you log in to Ability and see the track for Financial Conflict of Interest (FCOI) for US DOE & PHS Awards, follow the prompts, which will direct you to the CITI course.

  After you complete the training, you do not need to take any additional action. You will receive notice from ORRS.train@msu.edu when your FCOI training expires.

• Can you tell me more about this training?

  PHS, DOE, and other federal agencies require Key Personnel to take training before working on any funded projects for the first time.  Key personnel on these awards must renew this training every four years. ORRS.train@msu.edu will send you an email reminder 30 days prior to the deadline. It can take a week for records to be imported into the MSU Ability system. You will continue to receive reminders until your training completion is recorded in the Ability training compliance system.

  CITI hosts the COI Course (Financial Conflicts of Interest: Overview Investigator Responsibilities and COI Rules (COI-Basic)) that MSU assigns to researchers in order to meet this requirement. Ability is MSU’s learning management system (LMS) that assigns and tracks whether training has been completed. 

  You may contact ORRS.train@msu.edu, weekdays, for technical help, general questions, or special access to use the system.  You may contact help@osp.msu.edu or your grants administrator for award-specific questions.  You may contact cdm@msu.edu for general COI questions.
• Who is required to take COI training?

  Many federal agencies, including those that are part of the Public Health Service (PHS) and Department of Energy (DOE) require that Investigators and Key Personnel on their awards must take training once before beginning any work and every four years thereafter (with some exceptions).  Those agencies define “Investigator” as someone who is responsible for “the purpose [DOE only], design, conduct, or reporting” of the proposed or funded research.  Therefore, anyone who fulfills one of those roles is subject to these training requirements.  The University may expand the training requirement as it deems necessary. See Faculty COI Policy, Section IV.

  Individuals with research subject to the Human Research Protection Program (HRPP) manual may have additional COI training requirements.