Clinical Trial Teams Training Programs

Live and In Person Training Programs

ENACCT offers two interrelated cultural competency training programs with the purpose of improving recruitment, consent and accrual processes, for cancer clinical trials, especially among ethnic and racial minorities:

Optimizing Clinical Trials Recruitment and Retention Practices: A Workshop for Cancer Clinical Trial Staff
This is a four-hour Continuing Medical Education (CME) accredited course that is designed for clinical research coordinators, research nurses, and oncologists who are currently interacting with patients in the context of a clinical trial.

This course will help cancer clinical trial staff to:

• Gain insight into provider concerns about barriers to recruitment and retention among medically underserved populations in local cancer clinical trials
• Explain the impact of changing demographics and personal culture within the clinical research setting
• Discuss clinical trials with their patients
• 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 at five different points of encounter in the clinical trial setting.

CLAS Standards and Cancer Clinical Trials: Optimizing Institutions' Recruitment and Retention Practices

This is a four-hour CME accredited course that is designed for institution leadership such as administrators, vice presidents, directors of risk management, strategic planning, community outreach, or public relations.

Participants of this training are equipped to:

• Have a full understanding of clinical trials as a viable option for quality care
• Explain the impact of changing demographics and personal culture within the clinical research setting
• Describe current issues related to cultural competency and cancer clinical trials at the organizational level 
• Examine the ways in which Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) Standards can be related to clinical research
• Design an action plan to adapt CLAS in the conduct of research at one's own institution
• Identify strategies to engage communities in implementation of CLAS

Please contact us if you would like to receive more information regarding our live clinical trial team training programs.

Web-Based Courses

(CEU Provided)

LEVEL I
Your Role: Enhancing Your Recruitment and Retention Practices Among Medically Underserved Patients
This course is intended for oncologists, nurses and clinical research associates to improve recruitment, consent and accrual procedures and processes in cancer clinical trials, especially among ethnic and racial minorities and the medically underserved.  

LEVEL II
Your Role in Action: Cancer Clinical Trials Staff
Designed for cancer clinical trial staff, the purpose of this course is to feature strategies applied by cancer research staff and others to enhance patient recruitment and retention practices. 

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