Clinical Research Coordinator Training
As Clinical Research Coordinator, you will be responsible for conducting clinical trials using good clinical practice (GCP) under the auspices of the Principal Investigator.
Although the Principal Investigator is responsible for the overall conduct of the trial, the Clinical Research Coordinator is the heart and soul of the research study. For this reason, it is the Clinical Research Coordinator who carries forward the research goals, thereby playing a significant role in the success of the research study. Most importantly, Clinical Research Coordinators are often involved in essential duties that have been traditionally performed by the Principal Investigator, such as conducting the informed consent process and ensuring compliance with the protocol.
The Clinical Research Coordinator’s primary responsibility, as with all clinical research professionals, is the protection of human subjects using GCP.
The Clinical Research Coordinator has many other responsibilities, including preparing the submissions, writing the informed consent document, developing a detailed cost analysis, negotiating the budget with the Sponsor (i.e. pharmaceutical company or granting agency), subject recruitment, patient care, adverse event reporting, preparing the case report form (CRF), submitting CRFs and other data to the Sponsor as necessary and study close-out.
With all this in mind, training is likely to be overlooked or seen as having a lower priority.
It is important to ensure that all clinical research professionals, including the Principal Investigator, have training in GCP and in key areas aligned to their role and responsibilities.
Clinical Research Training provides an accepted standard of knowledge, education, and experience in a number of crucial areas. The courses can be accessed at a time suitable to the professional without taking precious time away from conducting the clinical trial.
E-learning means as a Clinical Research Coordinator you do not have to arrange for staff to attend training courses at critical times. Training can be tailored to the needs of the trial, upon your needs as the coordinator and to the needs of the individual. You can manage the overall training needed in conducting the trail effectively.
Clinical Research Training courses can be used to ensure that the whole team attain the same standards in particular area of clinical research.
Everyone has the same certification, particularly in ICH GCP, meaning that you can coordinate the trail safe in the knowledge that you are fully compliant with MHRA regulations in this area.