Charles Babbage's "Analytical Engine" (1830s), a mechanical calculator design that anticipated the logical features of today's general purpose computers.

Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI)

Application site

 http://www.citiprogram.org  (click to launch)

Function

The Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) provides online educational content in several topic areas: human subjects protection (CITI-IRB), good clinical practice (CITI-GCP), health information privacy and security (CITI-HIPS), and responsible conduct of research (CITI-RCR). 

The CITI-HIPS curriculum is a result of a joint effort of UM Ethics Programs and Medical Information Technology.

Access

 You must register at the CITI site (use link above) to obtain a user-ID and password for the site.  Users must be affiliated with an organization that is a member of the CITI program.

Documentation

 Available at the CITI site.

Support

 Contact the UM CITI Office at 305 243-7970 or citisupport@med.miami.edu.

Additional considerations

 While registration is required, materials on the CITI site are available to all medical campus faculty, staff and students without charge.

System administration 

CITI is administered by the University CITI Office.  CITI's servers are managed by the Datacenter Operations group.