Good Clinical Practice Training
We are delighted to announce the launch of a new Harmonized Research Training Framework between Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS), St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton (SJHH)/The Research Institute of St. Joe’s Hamilton (RSJH), McMaster University Faculty of Health Sciences and Population Health Research Institute (PHRI).
This Harmonization approach will support the research community advance through closer collaboration and partnership. The new Research Training Framework and Requirements will be in effect as of January 21st 2022. Please refer to the new training framework below for all research operations and activities. The CITI platform for all institutions have been modified accordingly to incorporate the new harmonized approach. Current Institutional learning platforms including MyLearning will be modified to incorporate the new requirements.
UPDATE: We have been informed that as of March 1, 2022, N2 will be temporarily disabling the CITI Privacy course. It was determined that the material in the module needed to be evaluated and updated. At the current time, we do not know how long it will be until this course is made available to us again. In order to maintain our research community’s knowledge and education on this topic, we will now require our research staff to complete the McMaster chart tutorial in lieu of the CITI Privacy course until it is made available to us again.
If you have already completed the CITI Privacy course, we will honor that training certificate until its expiration date. N2 has also informed us that the Privacy course will be removed from your CITI profile so we highly recommend saving a copy of your training certificates, which can be found by logging in to the CITI training website, clicking on your institutional affiliation, and viewing/saving your training certificate by clicking on the “View Previously Completed Coursework” link at the bottom of the page.
Please direct any questions about the Harmonized Training Requirement to your respective institutional contact.
Sincerely,
Collaborative Research Leadership
The table below outlines Harmonized Research Specific Training. This research training is required in addition to the Institutional and corporate mandatory Training courses. (Updated March 2022)
| Type of Study* | Required Training | Duration |
| Clinical studies that require approval from a research ethics board and require the use of patient chart(s) and/or identifiable information |
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| Clinical studies that require approval from a research ethics board and are a Health Canada regulated drug trial |
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| Retrospective studies not involving human subjects |
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| Studies involving humans sponsored by any of the Tri-Council Agencies of Canada (CIHR, NSERC, SSHRC) |
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| Laboratory-based procedures conducted in the wet labs. This list is a minimum, other department specific training may be required. |
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| Those working in the wet labs or packing/receiving samples in dry ice |
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*Should research studies fall under more than one of the categories listed, both categories’ required training must be completed.
Training modules can be located as follows:
| Training Module | Location |
| CITI-ICH GCP | https://www.citiprogram.org/ |
| CITI-Health Canada Division 5 | |
| CITI-TDG/IATA | |
| TCPS2 | https://tcps2core.ca/ |
| HiREB Chart Review Tutorial | http://ethics.mcmaster.ca/chart/ |
| PHAC Laboratory and Biosafety Training | publichealth.gc.ca/training |
| Harmonized Institutional Training Contacts | ||
| Name | Title | |
| Rebecca Leone | Administration and Compliance Coordinator, McMaster University | rleone@mcmaster.ca |
| Adam Weerdenburg | Research Quality Assurance Officer, The Research Institute of St. Joe’s Hamilton | aweerden@stjosham.on.ca |
| Kirsten Grubic | Research Development & Education Advisor, Population Health Research Institute | kirsten.grubic@phri.ca |
| Vanessa Manning | Research Compliance & Support Services Specialist, Hamilton Health Sciences | |