Your Role in Cancer Clinical Trials
ENACCT's Interactive, Web Based Courses
In 2009, ENACCT received educational grants from multiple partners to adapt its successful clinical trial education programs to a Web-based format. "Your Role in Cancer Clinical Trials," is a series of free, one hour e-learning courses which enable patient advocates, community leaders, primary care providers, and cancer clinical trial staff to learn more about promoting and discussing all treatment options, including clinical trials, for every person diagnosed with cancer. Participants will also learn how to promote greater access to and participation in cancer clinical trials, especially for minorities and the medically underserved.
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"Your Role: How You Can Be An Advocate for Cancer Clinical Trials in Your Community" (No CEU provided with this course)
For community leaders and patient advocates, this course is designed to prompt action on sharing information about the importance of clinical trials and encouraging all patients to ask about clinical trials regardless of diagnostic stage.
Participants learn how to:
• Reflect on how cancer impacts one's own community;
• Explain what cancer clinical trials are, how they work, and why they're important;
• Discuss the risks and benefits of clinical trial participation; and
• Identify three specific actions advocates and community members can take to increase their peers' awareness of clinical trials
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"Your Role: Why Cancer Clinical Trials Are Important for My Practice" (CEU Provided)
For primary care providers, this course is designed to prompt action on educating patients about the importance of clinical trials as an option for first line treatment, referring patients to local oncologists who participate in clinical trials, and encouraging patients to ask about clinical trials when meeting with an oncologist.
Participants will learn how to:
• Define cancer clinical trials, including how they work and their risks and benefits;
• Identify common patient barriers to cancer clinical trials participation;
• Discuss barriers faced by health care providers to making referrals, and explore ways in which these barriers can be overcome; and
• Discuss potential importance of health care providers being the first point of contact for patient participation in clinical trials.
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"Your Role: Enhancing Your Recruitment and Retention Practices Among Medically Underserved Audiences" (CEU Provided)
For oncologists, nurses, and clinical research associates, this course is designed to improve recruitment, consent and accrual procedures and processes in cancer clinical trials, especially among ethnic and racial minorities and the medically underserved.
Participants will learn how to:
• Understand the impact of changing demographics and personal culture within the clinical research setting;
• Describe current issues and future directions related to cultural competency and cancer clinical trials at the individual and organizational level;
• Identify optimal strategies to enhance patient interaction in the clinical trial setting; and
• Commit to an action plan for implementation of one strategy to enhance patient interaction.
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Your Role in Cancer Clinical Trials offered by ENACCT would not be possible without the generosity of sanofi aventis, Pfizer, Genentech and Lilly and Company.
