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Including Clinical Trials in Your Practice: An Overview
Including Clinical Trials in Your Practice: An Overview

Screenshot of the Clinical Trials Course

System Requirements

  • The course requires a minimum 1024x768 screen resolution.
  • The course contains an audio narrative that utilizes Flash. Download Flash player.
  • Your computer must have JavaScript enabled; you will not be able to access the course otherwise. Learn how to enable JavaScript.

Additionally, you can print a 508-compliant PDF file of the entire course (494KB).

Launch the Couse

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

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

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