Trainings from the Clinical Research Resources Office!
With Spring in the air, our educational offerings from the Clinical Research Resources Office (CRRO) are in full bloom! Consider taking the “Fundamentals” or “Principal Investigator” training; and check out our Clinical Research Seminar and RPN calendars for the beginning of 2025.
Check out the CRRO trainings below to register, and view past trainings, too!
- The next Fundamentals in the Conduct of Clinical Research will take place on 4 Mondays in June 2025: (2, 9, 16, 23) from 8:30am-11:00am. This amounts to 10 hours of content in four 2.5-hour sessions. This training will cover key topics and concepts to promote the ethical conduct of research study activities, and is ideal for new study staff as well as those wanting a refresher. Completion of this training will fulfill the GCP training requirement for clinical trials research for 3 years. Register here!
- The next Principal Investigator Role training will take place on Thursday, September 18, 2025, 8:00am–11:30am. This 3.5 hour training is for new PIs, as well as experienced PIs who want a refresher. The training will cover responsibilities of the investigator/sponsor-investigator, navigating the IRB application, protocol adherence, informed consent, safety monitoring/reporting, and documentation. Completion of this training will fulfill the GCP training requirement for clinical trials research for 3 years. Register here!
If you have any questions about which of the above trainings to take, please review this comparison between Fundamentals and PI Training.
Please use your BU or BMC email address. If you do not have one, please reach out to crro@bu.edu to let us know.
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Clinical Research Seminars take place on the second Wednesday of each month.
In March, we learned about “An Introduction to BMC’s New Clinical Research Unit” from Ryan Schroeder, Director of Business Operations, Clinical Research Network and Clinical Research Unit, BMC; and Anh Tran, MS, CRU Clinical Director, BMC.
Please click the link above to learn about our upcoming seminar. We hope to see you there!
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The RPN Workshops are one of the main offerings of the Research Professional Network (RPN). The workshops (offered via Zoom) are a series of peer-led, collaborative workshops focused on topics relevant to our research professional staff, and based on the Joint Task Force for Clinical Trial Competency Framework. The workshops are designed to give attendees a chance to engage with each other and to practice the learnings. Workshops are led by research peers from the collaborating sites: BMC/BU Medical Campus, University of Vermont, University of Florida, and Medical University of South Carolina. This gives us the opportunity to learn from and engage with those from other academic medical centers as well as our own.
The most recent RPN workshop occurred on Tuesday, April 29, 2025, and provided guidance on return of results (RoR) to participants from three perspectives: (1) RoR of general study findings, including arm unblinding; (2) RoR to community groups and participants; (3) RoR of personalized findings, including genetic and lab RoRs: “Re-engaging the Engaged: Providing Results Back to Research Participants”.
The next RPN workshop is on Tuesday, May 20, 2025, and is entitled: Clinical Trial Budgeting for Industry Trials. Sign up at this link!
- Click here to register for upcoming RPN Workshops.
- The Research Professionals Network (RPN) is open to all research professionals on the BU Medical Campus and BMC. Click here to join
- Click here to see videos and slides from past RPN Workshops.
We would love to hear from you about other topics you would like to see presented in either the Clinical Research Seminars or the RPN Workshops. Just contact Stephanie Warth (snwarth@bu.edu) with your ideas, and whether you are interested in presenting as well!
The CRRO is supported by the Boston University Clinical Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and the Office of Human Research Affairs.