{"id":48074,"date":"2024-07-17T14:00:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/?p=48074"},"modified":"2024-09-13T13:34:34","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T12:34:34","slug":"cantrain-clinical-trial-training-programmes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/cantrain-clinical-trial-training-programmes\/48074\/","title":{"rendered":"CANadian Consortium of Clinical Trial TRAINing Platform \u2013 clinical trial training programmes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The emergence of a novel Canadian Consortium of Clinical Trial Training Platform, a patient-centred, competency-based e-learning curriculum with mentorship, to support career development.<\/h2>\n

CANTRAIN<\/a> is a national programme supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Clinical Trials Fund (CTF), part of Canada\u2019s Biomanufacturing and Life Sciences Strategy led by Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) Canada. CANTRAIN addresses a key aspect of the clinical trial environment \u2014 the training of current Graduate Students, Postdoctoral Fellows, and the next generations of Trialists and Clinical Research Professionals in the development and conduct of clinical trials. Through a state-of-the-art Learning Management System (LMS), CANTRAIN provides competency-based courses in clinical research enriched by real-work and real-world experiential activities and expert mentorship.<\/p>\n

CANTRAIN curriculum<\/h3>\n

CANTRAIN is unlike any other training platform. We offer an innovative, competency-based clinical trial training curriculum enriched by experiential learning and expert mentorship. CANTRAIN offers uniquely designed training for four streams of learners, including:<\/p>\n

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  1. Graduate and postdoctoral trainees (GPT) \u2013 not exclusive to medical and health sciences;<\/li>\n
  2. Clinical trial\/research professionals (CTP\/CRP) \u2013 as assistants, associates, co-ordinators, and managers;<\/li>\n
  3. Clinicians\/clinical researchers\/trialists, as Principal Investigators (PI); and<\/li>\n
  4. Patients and community partners.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    This latest stream aimed at public engagement is further defined to include health charities, policymakers, journalists, social media influencers, and more. Its specific intention is to increase equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility (EDIA) for underserved and underrepresented groups interested in working and\/or participating in clinical trial research.<\/p>\n

    The CANTRAIN programmes and platform are available to all Canadian public, academic, and healthcare institutions (hospitals, research centres\/institutes) that host Clinical Trial Units (CTUs). Through federal funding, all CANTRAIN programmes are free in Canada.\u00a0 We intend to offer the same portfolio of training programmes on a fee-for-service basis to the private sector (biotech, biopharma, clinical contract research organisations (CCRO), Site Management Organisation (SMO)), to support the training of their own personnel as well as study staff at clinical trials sites across the country. The time will soon come to expand CANTRAIN\u2019s horizons and engage public and private organisations abroad, including in Europe.<\/p>\n