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Conflict Of Interest Training

The University, individual investigators and their staff share a collective responsibility to ensure that research conducted at Baylor is guided by the highest ethical standards and is in compliance with federal, state and university regulations governing research.

Baylor provides Financial Conflict of Interest training via an institutional subscription to the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI), a consortium of universities that provides convenient and comprehensive online training modules to Baylor investigators and their staff.

The COI training available through CITI satisfies the mandatory training requirement in financial conflicts of interest necessary in order to submit a grant application to a Public Health Service (PHS) funding agency. This training is optional for researchers submitting an application to non-PHS agencies.

The COI training consists of four modules as shown below. The time commitment for the two required modules is 1 to 1½ hours. The optional module takes ½ to ' of an hour.

Required Modules
  1. Financial Conflicts of Interest: Overview, Investigator Responsibilities, and COI rules.
  2. Institutional Responsibilities as they affect the investigator.
Optional Modules
  1. CITI Conflict of Interest Course - Introduction (provides information on course objectives and how to obtain CME credits).
  2. Conflicts of commitment, conscience, and institutional conflicts of interest.
Instructions for completing CITI Training can be found in the following guide: CITI Training Instructions. For further assistance with completing CITI training requirements and/or accessing other CITI training modules, please contact:
Jill Combs
Jill_Combs@baylor.edu
ext. 3708 		Damon Crisman
Damon_Crisman@baylor.edu
ext. 3147
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  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  • Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
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  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
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