External Resources for Additional Human Subjects Protections Training
In addition to the mandatory CITI training, a variety of additional on-line training options are available through a number of sources and cover a wide array of topics related to the ethical principles governing human subject research and human subject research protections.
Office of Human Research Protection (OHRP) Educational Videos
OHRP has created educational videos on the Health & Human Services YouTube channel. The videos are accessible through the OHRP Playlist and include:
- General Informed Consent Requirements (Research Subject)
- General Informed Consent Requirements (Research Investigator)
- IRB Membership
- Research Use of Human Biological Specimens and Other Private Information
- Reviewing and Reporting Unanticipated Problems and Adverse Events.
OHRP YouTube Channel
- 12 videos produced by OHRP about a variety of compliance issues
Training Modules from the Online Ethics Center
- Responsible Collection, Retention, Sharing, and Interpretation of Data
- Special Issues in Conducting Human Genetic Research
- Ethical Challenges in Research with Human Biological Materials
- Ethics of Research on Vulnerable Populations
- Ethics Of Research With Subjects Who Have Dementia
- Ethics Of Research With Children
- Ethics Of Research With Human Subjects Who are Mentally Ill
OHRP Training Modules
OHRP offers an on-line tutorial that includes three modules related to roles, requirements, and procedures in conducting research involving human subjects. This tutorial consists of three modules and an introduction:
- Tutorial Introduction
- HHS Regulations & Institutional Responsibilities
- Investigator Responsibilities & Informed Consent
- Human Research Protections Program
Click on any module title to be taken to the tutorial log-in page.
Web-Based Instruction on Informed Consent
- Interactive module that guides you through the elements of informed consent, from the University of Minnesota
The Research Clinic
- One hour interactive training video produced by the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) and the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP)
- For clinical and social researchers
- About the importance of appropriately protecting research subjects and avoiding research misconduct.
- Allows the viewer to assume the role of one of four storytellers – like a choose your own adventure, you can determine the outcome.
Case Study Collection from the Ethics Education Library
- Database of ethics cases from the fields of science, engineering, social sciences, and business (from the Illinois Institute of Technology)
- Great resource for professors looking to integrate ethics case studies into their curriculum
Case Study Collection from the Ethics Education Library
Articles from the Ethics Education Library
- Collection of articles about research ethics (from the Illinois Institute of Technology)
- Great resource for professors looking for additional course readings
Articles from the Ethics Education Library
Human Subjects Training from Health Resources and Services Administration
The entire training should take you about 90 minutes to complete; however, you can complete each module independently of the others. Module 1 is 22 minutes. Module 2 is 28 minutes and Module 3 is 36 minutes.
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Module 1
: Evolving Concern: Protection for Human Subjects -
Module 2 : The Belmont Report: Basic Ethical Principles and Their Application
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Module 3 : Balancing Society's Mandates: Criteria for Protocol Review
NIH – Protecting Human Research Participants Courses
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NIH's Protecting Human Research Participants training, which takes approximately three hours to complete and consists of seven modules on principles, regulations, policies, and guidance related to research using human subjects.
- Free to take, but you must register first.
Institutional Review Board Guidebook
The Guidebook provides additional information on protecting the rights and welfare of human subjects as defined in the HHS regulations (45 CFR 46), Protection of Human Subjects, revised June 18, 1991
Also available for investigators’ use as an educational resource is OHRP’s Investigator 101 CD held in HRPO that is available for checkout.
