MiOra provides free HIPAA certificate training and free CITI Research Compliance training to the interested students. The training programs are from the University of Florida. The training takes 5-7 hours to complete. Upon successful completion of the program, the student receives a downloadable certificate; which is valid nationally.

CITI Certification:

Below are instructions on accessing the CITI certificates if you have not made a CITI training account before or have not accessed the trainings as of yet.

Access CITI training link from University of Florida CITI Website

1. Under CITI section Select Your Organization Affiliation type in the words MiOra Educational Nonprofit.
2. In that same section Choose I AGREE to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy for accessing CITI Program materials.
3. Create your username and password
4. After creating your account please log in with your username and password if you have not done so.
5. Choose the CITI Courses as required.

*Remember you are choosing courses under MiOra as “Institutional Courses” – not as an independent learner.

Please complete the following listed 3 CITI Courses at your earliest convenience. Please note, that you might be unable to conduct or participate in any research until you have completed these courses.

• Social and Behavioral Responsible Conduct of Research
• Social & Behavioral Research
• Information Privacy Security (IPS)

For further assistance on using CITI please look at the CITI online instructional guide website or video CITI provides from their website by clicking on the link.

Once completed, you can download each certification. Please send a pdf document of your three certificates to a Co-Executive Director and/or Dr. Equils via email with the subject line “CITI Certificates for MiOra” , so one of us can verify your completion of MiOra’s CITI/HIPAA Training.