This page includes the mandatory trainings for new employees as well as employees who need to complete a training for compliance.
Onboarding employees (excluding undergraduates) should follow this checklist when completing Mandatory Training for the Center for Healthy Minds CHM Mandatory Training
Directions for Completing the Checklist
Click the DocuSign link above to navigate to the CHM Mandatory Training PowerForm
Enter your first and last name & work email address
You do not need a DocuSign account to fill out this form
Complete the form
If you need to finish the form at a later date, please click the Finish Later button. This will save your progress and you will receive an email with a link to your unfinished form to complete at a later date
When finished, click Submit
HR (Lisa Wesley - lawesley@wisc.edu) will automatically be notified that you have completed the form
You MUST successfully complete both the CITI-HS and HIPAA training BEFORE working with human subjects in the labs, and before you can be listed on an IRB protocol.
Mandatory Trainings
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CITI-HS (Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative - Human Subjects) tutorial
The CITI-HS tutorial must be completed before you can do any work in the lab(s). It will need to be renewed every three (3) years and takes about 3-6 hours to complete.
Go to the instructions page below and follow the "COMPLETION INSTRUCTIONS FOR FIRST TIME USERS"
You will need to take the "UW Human Subjects Protections Course"
Note: at a minimum, you must score 85% combined across all of the required modules to pass a course. You will be allowed to re-take the modules until your combined score across all modules is 85% or better. After you have completed all of the modules, and have a combined score above 85%, you can print/save the "Course Completion Report" for that course. Take a screenshot of the completion page and email it to your supervisor.
Please complete within 5 working days of your start date. You will also need to take an annual refresher each year.
The training will take 30 to 45 minutes to complete.
Preventing Sexual Harassment and Sexual Violence at UW-Madison
All UW Madison faculty, academic staff, university staff, and limited appointees who receive a paycheck from the University are required to complete the training. This includes employees-in-training, temporary employees, and employees on a project appointment.
Please note: If you are a graduate or professional student who is also employed by the university, do not take this training. You are instead required to take the graduate and professional student training. More information on that training can be found here.
This training is required within thefirst 30 days of your employment at the Center for Healthy Minds.
This training takes roughly one hour to complete. You will be asked to complete a refresher training every four (4) years. This is not an annual training.
You will be notified by the Office of Compliance or your local human resources representative when you are required to renew your training.
"Preventing Sexual Harassment and Sexual Violence at UW-Madison" is an online training module that gives you clear information about:
The University's definitions of sexual harassment and sexual violence, including scenarios to highlight how these behaviors can happen in different settings
Strategies that UW-Madison uses to prevent sexual harassment and sexual violence
Bystander intervention strategies to use when you see these behaviors on campus
Ways you can support someone who experiences sexual harassment or sexual violence
Confidential resources that UW-Madison employees can use on campus and in the Madison community
Available options for reporting sexual harassment and sexual violence
UW-Madison's policies and procedures for responding to sexual harassment and sexual violence reports
Employees without access to a computer as part of their daily work responsibilities and our English language learners will be offered alternate training opportunities on this important topic.
Completing this training meets our compliance obligations under Board of Regents Policy 14-2. More importantly, it moves us forward in achieving a campus free from sexual harassment and sexual violence.
Cybersecurity Awareness
Required Adherence to Acceptable Use Policy and Cybersecurity Awareness Training
Additional study-specific training will be determined by your supervisor if needed.
Your supervisor will let you know if you will need to complete the additional trainings below.
MRI Safety - Needed if you will be working with the MRI scanner. See detailed instructions below.
Biosafety and Bloodborne-Pathogens - Needed if you are working with data for which a biosafety protocol applies/working with bloodborne pathogens.
MRI Safety
Confirm with your supervisor that the study you are working with utilizes the Waisman Brain Imaging facilities. If so, please check with your supervisor to find what access and trainings listed below need to be done.
For supervisors: If you are hiring several employees or undergraduates, please coordinate a few times the entire group can come out to Waisman together for training. This time must align with free time in the MRI. Email Michael Anderle (manderle@wisc.edu) to schedule the visit.
Potential access and trainings:
Facility keys
network access
MRI / Simulator Calendar access
Screening training (only needed if employee/undergrad will be screening subjects)
Safety training
Before your Waisman visit, please watch the below video, and sign the google doc after:
Video Sign-off: indicate that you have watched the video on this form.
Biosafety and Bloodborne-Pathogens
Biosafety training is required for all members of a study with a biosafety protocol (unless these individuals will not ever be working with data for which the protocol applies). Bloodborne-pathogen training is required for researchers working with potentially infectious human materials
