In c4c, we are creating an integrated educational program, developed jointly by academia and industry companies, to address best practice in paediatric clinical trials and paediatric medicine development.
So far, 31 courses have been developed within our consortium in the fields of:
- Good Clinical Practice (GCP basic courses)
- Competence Development courses in Good Clinical Practice
- Courses for Families and Patients involvement
- Short thematic courses designed for continuing professional development of competences and expertise, aimed at researchers involved in c4c Proof of Viability studies:
- Trial Start-up
- Monitoring
- As well as Proof of Viability study related courses
- Treocapa courses
- cASPerCF courses
- KD-CAAP courses
Upcoming on-line courses for 2021
These courses are open to the c4c consortium, National Hubs members and sites, see c4c-Academy
To find out more how to enrol, please contact your National Hub or the Enrolment secretariat, enrolment-c4c@opbg.net
Upcoming on-line courses for 2021
Upcoming courses | Planned start date |
| Good Clinical Practice (GCP basic course) | Finishes 31 May 2021 – Further editions to follow |
| Competence development in GCP: Audit and Inspection readiness | 1st edition due to lunch autumn 2021 |
| Competence development in GCP: The process to obtain Informed Consent and Assent | Pilot edition to start on 19 April 2021 |
| Competence development in GCP: Relevant aspects in GCP for research nurses | Pilot edition to start in July 2021 |
| Advanced course on Paediatric Clinical Trials and Paediatric Drug Development (interactive course for a duration of 8 months) | Pilot edition to start in September 2021 |
| An introduction to innovative clinical trial design | Due to launch summer 2021 |
| Developmental pharmacology | Due to launch summer 2021 |
| Concepts of Paediatric Investigation Plans (PIP) (collaboration with WP4) | Due to launch summer 2021 |
| Data Visualisation and Business Intelligence (collaboration with WP5) | Due to launch winter 2021 |
| Practical tips for setting up gene therapy trials – an “Institutional Readiness” framework | Due to launch winter 2021 |
| Modelling simulation and extrapolation | Due to launch winter 2021 |
| Remote assessments in Paediatric Clinical Trials | Due to launch winter 2021 |
| Issues experienced in adolescent clinical trials | Due to launch winter 2021 |
| Registries and linking with observational studies | Due to launch winter 2021 |
| Short course “Monitoring” | 3rd edition to follow from May 2021 |
| Short course “Trial start-up” | 3rd edition to follow from May 2021 |
| Children, Young patients and family involvement in the design of clinical research | 4th edition ongoing, further editions to follow |
