To minimize the delays in approving new submissions, modifications, and continuing reviews, the UAMS Institutional Review Board will no longer send contingencies about a study staffer not having current Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) training. Instead, the Institutional Review Board will send a note reminding the team that this staffer does not have Institutional Review Board approval to interact with human subjects or access identifiable study material until CITI training is completed.
Note that the Institutional Review Board will continue to require current CITI training for study principal investigators and will not approve new submissions, modifications, or continuing reviews if the principal investigator’s CITI training is incomplete or expired.
Should you get a contingency asking a study staffer to complete CITI training, you can use the “comment” link below it in Clinical Research Administration (CLARA) to indicate that you understand the person must not participate in the research until the training is complete and return your response to the Institutional Review Board.