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CITI HSR Working Group Meeting

This report summarizes the programming focus of the CITI software team from 2008-2009, including completed and ongoing projects, as well as future plans for 2009-2010. The focus has been on improving enrollment options, database management, site speed, and security. The report also discusses research surveys conducted on mentoring experiences and willingness to participate in clinical trials.

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CITI HSR Working Group Meeting

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  1. CITI HSR Working Group Meeting May 22, 2009 Key West, Florida

  2. CITI Software Modifications

  3. CITI Software Team • Mike Fallon DVM, Ph.D. • Stephanie Manuel • Programmer (50% T&E) • Chris Simmons – • Programmer and database specialist. (50% T&E)

  4. Programming Focus 2008-2009 • Completed Projects • A more feature-rich enrollment question option added that incorporates branched logic.- can reduce number of enrollment Q’s seen by learners and allows much more sophisticated course customization by learner. • Added standard “remote gateway” mechanism to allow learners to come into CITI directly from local networks- provides absolute personnel records match with downloaded training datasets • Completed conversion to more sophisticated quiz question management- multiple subsets of quiz Q’s can be ordered, randomized as needed. • Restructured entire CITI website and database fields for compatibility with int’l character sets (unicode), and cleaned up corrupted international course text. [99% complete]

  5. Programming Focus 2008-2009 • Complete Projects • Flexibility of automated training dataset dumps increased to add value to institutions.[complete] • More sophisticated institutional cloning tools added to reduce new institution setup time by CITI staff [complete] • Ongoing Projects • Transition from SQL 2000 to SQL 2005 database platform to increase site speed and reduce timeouts June 2009 target • Improve database backup strategy to prevent more than 1 hour of lost CITI records in case of catastrophic server failures (note: redundant database servers already in place to reduce failure risk). June 2009 target

  6. Programming Focus 2008-2009 • Ongoing Projects • Transfer CITI site to 2 new UM database and 4 new UM web servers to increase site speed, add capacity, and reduce/eliminate timeouts July 2009 • Add more flexibility in allowing CITI staff to give learners credit for work done at other institutions July 2009 target • Reduce complexity of grade book and learner group logic to speed up learner login and reduce server load July 2009 target • Incorporate better account security, including a security question and hashed (hidden) password storage for accounts August 2009 target

  7. Programming Focus 2008-2009 • New Projects in Progress • Added new admin level (“superadmin”) to provide enhanced control of multiple international institutions by non-CITI staff . [first draft complete, tweaking under way] • All web pages tweaked to reduce database calls and improve site speed [initial work complete, additional work ongoing] • Created account merge tool for combining multiple learner accounts [initial work complete, tweaks ongoing]

  8. Programming Focus 2008-2009 • Improve database backup strategy to prevent more than 1 hour of lost CITI records in case of catastrophic server failures (note: redundant database servers already in place to reduce failure risk). June 2009 target

  9. Programming Focus 2009 - 2010 • Begin coding for next version of CITI, • Cold Fusion platform rather than active server pages, • New features • More sophisticated translation/authoring tools for international authors • Better course image and text management • Improved CITI developer tools for reviewing courses and quiz questions. • Enhanced site speed, increased concurrent learner capacity. • Greater site customization opportunities for individual institutions. • Enhanced institutional administrator learner management tools. • Many requested feature enhancements are being tracked by Marcos for incorporation into new version Start date October 2009; completion in 2010-2011

  10. Research Surveys “Mentoring Experiences” And “Who Wants To Be a Human Subject”

  11. MENTORING • “Survey Says” • Mentoring is a well recognized benefit to tudent and faculty. • Although most “mentors” have had little formal training; they feel that they are doing a good job. • Most mentees indicate that their research advisors are also their mentors. • Large number of students report that their institutions do not have mentoring programs.

  12. “So you want to be a human subject” • Human subjects satisfaction survey. • Currently awaiting “exempt” designation by UM IRB. • Asking Survey responders about their willingness to participate in clinical trials. • What kind of clinical trial would you participate in and under what circumstances. • Working hypothesis: Clinical investigators and IRB professionals will show high enthusiasm for participating in clinical trials. • Parse the data according to role in research. • >600 survey responses per day.

  13. RCR Meeting Summary • Very interesting presentations on the use of video from Jeff Engler • Update on new course development. • Jason Borenstein, Sharon Shriver, Ben Fontes • Discussed ways to have a closer working relationship with the OpenSeminar program at NC State. • Short term changes • Quiz questions, • Typos and errors in the content. • Suggestion to hire an editor. • Develop a module on Plagiarism

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