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About the Course

This course aims to teach people how to enhance the recruitment and retention of individuals from minoritized and marginalized communities in clinical trials. We begin by discussing the importance of diversity in clinical research, the lasting impact of past research abuses, and barriers and facilitators to research participation. Next, we explore community engagement principles, effective communication strategies, ways to increase community knowledge and awareness of clinical research, and outreach to community providers. Last, we discuss recruitment planning, person-centered consent, and retention. The course duration is listed as 8 weeks. However, you can work at your own pace and finish the course faster, if so desired. There is no cost to participate in the course; however, there is a fee for obtaining a completion certificate. Financial aid options are available. CME information: Vanderbilt University Medical Center designates this enduring material for a maximum of 8.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)â„¢. For more information, see the first reading assignment in Module 1. Acknowledgments: We would like to acknowledge the following members from the Center for Knowledge Management at Vanderbilt University Medical Center for their expertise and insightful contribution in the development and implementation of the course: Sheila Kusnoor, PhD, Marcia Epelbaum, MA, Lori Harding, MLS, Elizabeth Frakes, MSIS, Helen Naylor, MS, Mallory Blasingame, MA, Taneya Koonce, MSLS, MPH, and Nunzia Bettinsoli Giuse, MD, MLS. We would also like to acknowledge Devan Ray, BA, from the Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, for her role in project management and contributions to content development. Additionally, we acknowledge ArtMagic Labs, particularly Casey Culver, Victor Tyler, Jake Sucoff, John Martinez, and Robert Eva, for their outstanding work in filming and editing the videos for the course. The Vanderbilt Recruitment Innovation Center leads the efforts behind the Faster Together project. This work was supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, under the award numbers U24TR001579 and U24TR004432....

Top reviews

VS

Oct 15, 2022

Wonderful, very well organized course. Very relevant, well presented.

A few of the links are expired/invalid but generally, course was rich in useful material.

Thank you so much!

SS

Mar 28, 2023

Wonderful, insightful, thought-provoking course with very relevant learnings and practical takeaways for anyone involved in clinical development NOW.

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By Katherine P J

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Oct 1, 2020

This course was interesting, well designed and the presentations were engaging. But this course was not as focused on minorities specifically compared to what I expected. A lot of the information given could be true across all ethnicities and is common knowledge if you work in trials. It would be useful to look more closely at the under represented ethnicities or cut out some of the 'generic' information to shorten the course. Also, a lot of the links for readings did not work, please check these regularly.

By Terry F

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Sep 16, 2021

The instructors are great, course materials useful, information presented is integral to a great recruitment and outreach program.

By Priscilla B

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Jul 21, 2019

I've never taken an on line coarse prior to this endeavor. Once I began the lesson the information was very informative and provided me with additional information that correlated with a PCORI project that I did for 18 months with a Community Church Base Organization. It's always wonder to add onto your knowledge base .

By Marcia B H

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Dec 4, 2020

I highly recommend this course. It has an unbelievable collection of resources and expands your thinking on how you can improve recruitment, enrollment, accrual and retention for clinical trials. It includes immediate application and feedback so that you can retain and apply the information to your site's studies.

By Katherine C

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Oct 27, 2021

I thought this course provided excellent insights and loads of incredibly helpful tools and other guiding resources. The strategies and recommendations provided will be very helpful in improving identification, recruitment, and retention of individuals from minority groups and underserved communities.

By Nancy R L

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Mar 2, 2021

This is a great course that gives practical knowledge for recruiting minorities in Clinical Trials. Also, the course provides templates for letters, links for birthday cards, and great ideas and procedures for pre-screening, screening, and retention.

By Aaron W

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Apr 30, 2022

This course was extremley useful for me. It provides insights and lessons learned that will increase enrollment in minority populations. The presenters were easy tounderstand, the quizzes asked the right questions. Just a great course overall!

By David M

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Jan 5, 2021

I found this 8 week course to be really useful and accessible. The bite size learning allows you to go as fast as you need and covers some important aspects and approaches to tackling the diversity need in clinical trials,

By Valerie S

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Oct 16, 2022

Wonderful, very well organized course. Very relevant, well presented.

A few of the links are expired/invalid but generally, course was rich in useful material.

Thank you so much!

By Sarah S

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Mar 29, 2023

Wonderful, insightful, thought-provoking course with very relevant learnings and practical takeaways for anyone involved in clinical development NOW.

By Royisha Y

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May 27, 2022

Great course, the detailed information and worksheets are very helpful and I have already started implementing things I have learned.

By Kira D

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Jun 6, 2022

Excellent interactive course. I downloaded and saved most of the resources provided. Thank you!

By Frances D

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May 9, 2022

Excellent course. So well done with videos, readings. Resources I will put into use right away!

By Mark R

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Sep 2, 2020

it was really great. one of the best online courses i have ever had. thanks for sharing!

By Heather R

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Apr 26, 2021

very informative and resourceful especially as a new research coordinator.

By Miguel G J

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Mar 20, 2021

Learned a fair amount. The resources are also top notch.

By Sandy S

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Apr 24, 2022

provides current clinical trial data on patients

By Victoria J

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Aug 11, 2021

This is amazing.

By Santosh P

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Aug 24, 2020

Excellent Course

By Damien H

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Jan 2, 2020

fantastic course

By Chisom E

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Sep 12, 2022

Good

By Bakhita A N A

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Aug 11, 2023

GOOD

By Deleted A

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Dec 15, 2021

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By Rose J

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Apr 23, 2021

I really enjoyed this course. It was packed with very useful information. I learned a lot from it.

By Amber D

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Mar 13, 2022

There is important and valuable information included in this course, but the presentation wasn't alwasys engaging. Asking me to consistently go to another website was a little off-putting, especially when it asked me to register for a site or automatically downloaded documents I didn't necessarily want. I did like that there were a couple of actual patients and it would have been nice to hear from them more often. I also liked the use of "what would you do" questions when presented with a scenario. Although you could skip it, it was a good way to creatively think about how to handle situations.