Institutional Review Board (IRB)

Revised IRB Manual July 2024

IRB Application Submission Process

Training Energizer 1 - Registering and Creating an Account in IRBNet

academics/research/irbnet_training_energizer-new_user_registration.pdf

Training Energizer 2 - Submitting an IRB Package in IRBNet

academics/research/irbnet_training_energizer-new-project-submission.researcher_1.pdf

Training Energizer 3 - Submitting Subsequent Packages (such as Amendments or Continuing Reviews)

academics/research/irbnet-training-energizer-researcher-2.pdf

Training Notes: Submitting a Revised Project Package

academics/research/irbnet-notes-subsequent-packages.pdf

academics/research/molloy-university-power-point-fall-2024-comprehensive-irb-review-process-12.12.2024-ms11.pdf

academics/research/molloy-university-power-point_spring-2025_submission-of-an-irb-proposal2.pdf

academics/research/molloy-university-power-point_spring-2025_submission-of-an-irb-proposal_9_18_2025.pptx

The Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) is a subscription service providing Molloy's research community with comprehensive on-line training in human subjects research (HSR). If you are an investigator, research team member, or student doing human subjects research, you must take the “Responsible Conduct of Research Course” AND a "Human Subjects Research Course" in order to submit to the IRB or be listed as part of the research team.

CITI program content is organized into modules, which can be thought of as lessons. Modules of a course may be set as required; or they may be set as elective. Modules are composed of text, images, and video content which generally follows a standard format: It begins with an introduction of the topic(s) to be covered, then provides a set of learning objectives; after that comes the main material, broken up into sections, followed by a concluding summary sections. Each module may take 10-30 minutes to complete. You can leave and come back to the site using your CITI user name and password and quizzes can be retaken to achieve a higher score until a passing score is achieved.

Modules typically include a quiz made up of multiple-choice questions. Achieving a passing score on the set of quiz questions is required to "complete" the module. When you complete a quiz, feedback is usually provided for each question, which includes guidance on why the answer selected was correct or incorrect.  Module content can be revisited and quizzes can be retaken to achieve a higher score until a passing score is achieved.

For each set of modules that has been assembled into a course, a learner has an associated gradebook.  The gradebook shows your progress for each module of that course-not yet started, started but not completed, completed and passed, or not passed. Training is required every three years.

To Register:

1. Go to http://citiprogram.org.
2. Once there, simply click "Create an account".
3. You will be taken to the page "Personal Information".
4. Enter "Molloy University".
5. Enter your desired username and password where indicated.
6. Select a security question.
7. Enter your first and last name.
8. Enter your preferred email address.
9. Hit submit. You will be taken to Main Menu.

To Enroll in a Course:

1. Go to My learner tools for Molloy University. Click on Add a Course or Update Learner Groups.
2. The next page is Select Curriculum-Molloy University.
3. All investigators, IRB members, IRB chair, students, assistants on ANY IRB protocol MUST take the Responsible Conduct for Researchers course (required modules) and a Human Subjects’ Research course-either the Social & Behavioral course OR Biomedical course. Please see uploaded form “Required Citi Training at Molloy University” for required modules.

academics/research/rcr-hsr-citi-training-10_2023-12.pdf

academics/research/the-belmont-report-protection-of-human-subjects-of-research.pdf