College Of Clinical Research Clinicians
This 5 week, fast-paced course is designed to take a research naive clinician through the entire process of running their own research clinic, or being an Investigator at another clinic.
Week 1: General Responsibilities of Principal Investigators
GCP
FDA
Protocol
SOP
IRB
PI Oversight
Source documentation
Adverse Event reporting
Regulatory
Week 2: Research Staff, Training, and Office Layout
PI
Sub I
Research Coordinators
Site Monitors
Patient Recruiters
Staff workload
Contracts and Budgets
Clinic set ups
Equipment
Week 3: SOPs, Regulatory & Source
What are SOP
What are regulatory documents
What are source documents
Inclusion/exclusion criteria
Week 4: Monitoring Visits and Quality Assurance
Site selection
Site initiation
Interim monitoring
Close out
Audits
Quality control/assurance
Week 5: Contracts and Budgets/Patient Recruitment
What is included in a contract
How to negotiate a budget
Fair market value
Pre screening
Database mining
Retention