CITI Training Records and iRIS
Completed NIH CITI Training Records are transferred to iRIS every 6 hours. Wait at least 6-12 hours after course completion before checking them in iRIS and reporting any issues.
Accessing the NIH CITI portal and checking training completion records
How to check your CITI training records in iRIS
- Log into iRIS - https://irb.nih.gov
- Move the mouse cursor over My Profile and select My Account on the upper right corner of the iRIS window.
- Then click on Training History on the left side.
- CITI Training Records associated with your iRIS account will be listed.
Transfer of CITI training records into iRIS
Prerequisites
Check and update your CITI profile before starting enrolling/taking any new CITI training course
Visit this OHSRP page for instructions on how to log into CITI and verify that:
- User's affiliation on CITI Profile must be NIH.
- User's CITI profile primary email address must be the same as user's NIH AD email that appears on the user's NED profile ( https//ned.nih.gov ) .
- Make sure you have logged into iRIS at least once so that your iRIS email address gets updated with the NIH AD email from NED.
- Only CITI NIH Training Courses or NIH affiliated users are transferred to iRIS.
Processing
- Once a CITI training course is complete, it will be transferred into iRIS in the next 6 - 12 hours.
- If the training record's email address matches the user's iRIS account email address (same as the NIH AD email mentioned above), then it is associated with the user in iRIS.
- If there is no email match, then the training record is not associated with an iRIS account. This will probably be the case when the CITI profile had a different email address than the NIH AD email. iRIS might have received older training records with old email addresses. Once a new training course is completed, all training records should come with the CITI Profile primary email address. Make sure to update your CI
Reporting issues
Known issues
CITI Training Certificate information does not match information in iRIS
Some users have reported that the Expiration Date shown on their CITI Training Certificate does not match the Information shown in iRIS.
This is due to a problem on their Training Records in CITI.
Open the Certificate PDF provided to you and click on the link Verify at: at the bottom of the Certificate.
Once the Certificate opens on your Web Browser, compare the entire contents of the Certificate displayed with the one provided to you.
Contact CITI Support at https://support.citiprogram.org/ if you encounter any discrepancies and request the information to be corrected.
Once CITI notifies you the corrections were made, wait at least 6 - 12 hours and then check again in iRIS. Note that it might take at least 24 hours.
Click on the images below to see examples of wrong expiration dates.
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NIAID CITI GCP (US FDA Focus) not in iRIS
If you have taken/completed the NIAID CITI GCP (US FDA Focus) training course and your certificate shows NIAID "under the requirements set by" ( like in this image - NIAID_CITI_GCP.png ), then this training course is affiliated with NIAID and not NIH. Only CITI training courses affiliated with NIH are transferred into iRIS.
Contact CITI Support at https://support.citiprogram.org/ and inquire if this training course can be transferred to the equivalent NIH GCP (US FDA focus). Make sure your CITI profile affiliation is NIH as well. Once CITI takes care of the training record it should transfer into iRIS in the next 6-12 hours.
Reporting other issues with the CITI training records data in iRIS
- Check your CITI Profile and Training Records in iRIS before reporting any issues to the iRIS ticketing system ( https://iris.helpdesk.nih.gov - requires connection to NIH network or using NIH VPN ).
- Attached the certificate or include the Record ID that appears on the certificate to the request.
- Also provided any other significant information such as: possible different name between iRIS and CITI profile, study/submission which training record is not being reflected.