All researchers are required to complete Conflict of Interest (COI) training in COINS. You will receive an email notification from COINS when it is time for you to complete your training. For your reference, the training is linked below. Please note that viewing the training document from this website does not fulfill your required training in COINS. Your training must be completed in COINS when you recieve the email notification that your training is due.  

• Disclosure and Management of Significant Financial Interests Training

• Video: Getting Started with the Conflict of Interest and Conflict of Commitment Program (4m:3s)
• Video: Overview of Conflicts of Interest and Commitment (9m:34s)
• Video: An Introduction to Outside Professional Activities and Conflict of Commitment in Five Minutes (4m:55s)
• Webpage: Disclosure of Outside Professional Activties at Penn State 

• Faculty Outside Activities and Disclosure Guide
• What Does Relatedness Mean?
• Disclosure Requirements for Penn State Faculty
• Significant Financial Interests and Examples
• Tips for Penn State Faculty Entrepreneurs
• Why am I a University Official?

Disclosure Instructions

• Create, Submit, or Withdraw a Disclosure
  • Request Access to COINS
  • What is the difference between the University Official Disclosure and the Researcher Disclosure Form?
  • Complete a Disclosure
  • Correct the Department or Department Reviewer in a Disclosure
  • Add a Research Project to a Disclosure
  • Remove a Research Project from a Disclosure
  • Remove an Entity from a Disclosure
  • Submit a Disclosure
  • Print a Disclosure
  • ​Locate and View a Previously Submitted Disclosure
  • Withdraw a Disclosure
• Edit an Unsubmitted Disclosure
  • Edit an Unsubmitted Discloure 
  • Update Your Disclosure with Venture or Other Capital Financing
• Working with Management Plans
  • Approve a Management Plan
  • Locate an Approved Management Plan

Department Reviewer Instructions

• How Do I Review Financial Disclosures for My Department?

Contact the COI Office

• How do I contact the COI Office?

Other

• Conflict of Interest Help for IAF Investigators Tab

Penn State Health and College of Medicine Users

Use these instructions to locate and use your Penn State Account credentials to access COINS: 

• Log in to Penn State Systems: Penn State Health and College of Medicine Users