National Cancer Institute

Including Clinical Trials in Your Practice: An Overview

Target Audience

A Web-based course for healthcare providers who are interested in becoming clinical trials investigators and including cancer clinical trials in their practice.

Course Content Overview

This Web-based course covers these topics:

• Evaluating the option of becoming a clinical trials investigator
• Registering and credentialing
• Strategies for establishing and training the research team
• Locating sources of funding and identifying an IRB
• Patient recruitment, enrollment and eligibility verification
• Record keeping and reporting requirements
• Quality assurance procedures
• Working with referring clinicians

Time

The estimated time to complete this course is 2 ¼ hours.

Accessible Format

		The course contains an onscreen transcript of the audio narrative. Look for the audio symbol in the upper right of the course.
		The course also contains a complete audio transcript on each screen. To view the transcript, click on the transcript symbol.