Business Skills for Clinical Trial Research Managers Online Course
This course aims to upskill clinical trial professionals with the business skills they need to successfully run a clinical trial unit
Learning Objectives:
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Explore the steps involved in the clinical trial feasibility process and its impact on study start-up.
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Explore hospital financing and the language of hospital finance.
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Consider tips for budget preparation, especially for non-commercial trials and compare budget development and budget negotiation.
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Examine costing and cost analysis of clinical trials units, creating budgets based on true costs.
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Recognise common agreements used in clinical trial management in Australia.
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Define roles crucial for a successful clinical trial unit and guide role development.
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Identify key negotiation skills.
Learning Outcomes:
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Identify key roles in the feasibility team and address common problems between the site and sponsor during feasibility.
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Use enhanced communication skills, including finance language to develop and create budgets tailored for both commercially sponsored and non-commercial trials, while identifying the true cost of a clinical trial unit for sustainable growth.
Hospital Finance
This module is an introduction to how hospitals are funded. By utilising the language of finance, you will better communicate with mainstream hospital financial managers to create a clinical trial unit budget with an understanding of true costs.
Feasibility in Clinical Trials
This module explores essential groundwork to initiate a clinical trial, emphasising a robust feasibility assessment process.
Insurance, Contracts, Agreements
This module explores insurance, contracts, and common agreements used in managing clinical trials in Australia.
Budgeting a Single Clinical Trial
This module explores how to budget a clinical trial appropriately
Budgeting a Clinical Trial Unit
This module helps you to recognise your unit's true costs and design a budget that fulfils your needs and prepares for sustainable future growth.
Staffing a Clinical Trial Unit
This module explores the suggested areas for research managers to consider when planning and working with their staff.
Business Negotiations
This module considers some of the principles behind successful negotiations and offers some practical tips on how to proceed, regardless of the subject matter.
The VCCC Alliance would like to acknowledge the following people for their contribution to this course.
Program 4 Clinical Trial Innovations: Enhance Business Capability Working Group
Marian Lieschke - Parkville Cancer Clinical Trials Unit Manager and VCCC Alliance Clinical Trial Innovations Co-Chair
Heike Raunow - Cancer Research Manager, Western Health
Jacqui Waterkeyn - Director of Office of Research, Melbourne Health
Kathleen Wilkins - Consumer
Anne Woollett - Director, Clinical Trials Hub, Alfred Health
Carolyn Stewart - Business and Operations Manager, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
Christie Allan - Policy Lead, Cancer Council Victoria
Carole Mott - Clinical Trials Coordinator, Goulburn Valley Health
Jhodie Duncan - Research Manager, La Trobe Regional Hospital Research Unit
Marie Luci - Operations Manager, Cancer Trials Australia
Amy Shelly - Head of Research Governance and Optimal Care, Cancer Council Victoria
Christie Allan - Policy Lead, Strategy and Support, Cancer Council Victoria
Chris Brooks- Alfred Cancer Trials Research Manager
Kaya Gardiner - Director Research Operations, The Royal Children’s Hospital
Duncan Colyer - Senior Manager, Clinical Research, VCCC Alliance
Eleonora Kay - Clinical Trial Innovations, VCCC Alliance
Content providers and reviewers
Heike Raunow - Cancer Research Manager, Western Health
Marie Luci - Operations Manager, Cancer Trials Australia
Carolyn Stewart - Business and Operations Manager, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
Jacqui Waterkeyn - Director of Office of Research, Melbourne Health
Anne Woollett - Director, Clinical Trials Hub, Alfred Health
Maryanne Turner - Feasibility and Communications Specialist, Parkville Cancer Clinical Trials Unit
Marian Lieschke - Parkville Cancer Clinical Trials Unit Manager and VCCC Alliance Clinical Trial Innovations Co-Chair
Course Developer
Marian Lieschke - Parkville Cancer Clinical Trials Unit Manager and VCCC Alliance Clinical Trial Innovations Co-Chair
Digital Education Content Developer
Amanda Clifford, Course Content and Instructional Designer - Senior Research Nurse in Haem C Parkville Cancer Clinical Trials Unit
VCCC Alliance Learning Design Team
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