OUHSC requires all individuals who conduct or oversee research, or who are eligible to conduct research or oversee research - including managing research accounts (administrative and/or financial aspects) to complete the required training course on Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR). Departments are responsible for assigning Research Integrity Training (via ePAF) to individuals in their unit (faculty, staff, students, postdocs or others working on campus) whose duties involve conducting or overseeing research or whose salaries are paid from sponsored research accounts. Please contact your supervisor or departmental business manager if you have questions regarding whether you must complete the Research Integrity training.
Please note that all OUHS Graduate College students and Postdoctoral Fellows, as well as all individuals conducting research in HSC labs who are appointed as trainees on NIH, NSF, AHA, or other awards, will have additional training requirements for the Responsible Conduct of Research. Those individuals should contact the Graduate College for more information.
About the Required Course: "Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR)" - CITI Program
The "Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR)" course provides an in-depth overview of core RCR topics including: Collaborative Research, Financial Responsibility, Data Management, Reproducibility of Research Results, Mentoring, Authorship, Plagiarism, Research Misconduct, Peer Review, Conflicts of Interest, Research Involving Human Subjects, and Using Animal Subjects in Research. Case studies and video examples are used to supplement key concepts. Each of the 13 modules of the RCR course consists of an introduction, basic foundation text, embedded case studies, and quiz questions. Each module can be completed individually and overall progress saved, therefore it is not required that all 13 modules be completed in one setting. Each module has a quiz that must be passed with a score of at least 80% to be considered passing (quiz can be repeated until desired score is achieved). Once all 13 modules have been completed with at least 80% quiz score, a course completion certificate will be issued. Anyone with an OUHS email address can go directly to the CITI Program website, affiliate with OUHS and then add the Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) course and take the training.
* Please note: The "Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR)" course is different from other CITI course(s) required by the Office of Human Research Participant Protection for IRB protocols.
Frequency of Training
The RCR course from CITI Program is valid at OUHSC for four years from the date of completion. After four years, CITI Program will send a notification email that the course is due to expire and the RCR Refresher course will automatically be assigned; the Refresher course will show up in the “Courses ready to begin” section within the CITI Program dashboard for users once they have logged in.