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Prerequisites

Medical Terminology: An Anatomy and Physiology ApproachFPM-40632

Units: 1.50

$345

Using an anatomy and physiology systems approach, this course reviews common terms associated with medical practice, research, and different healthcare settings. The goal: to better prepare individual...

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Typically Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer

CT: Human Subjects Protection and IRBsFPM-40388

Units: 2.00

$525

This essential course offers an ethical framework for human subjects regulations, introduces regulatory issues in clinical trials, and reviews concern for human subjects protection in drug/device tria...

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Typically Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer

CT: Drug Development ProcessFPM-40173

Units: 3.00

$645

This keystone course examines the drug development process and history of clinical trials. Topics include sources of new drugs devices; the process of discovery; how a discovery becomes a drug or de...

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Typically Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer

CT: Good Clinical PracticesFPM-40204

Units: 3.00

$645

Topics include the definition and identification of good clinical practices (GCPs); how GCPs affect the conduct of clinical trials; regulating agencies and applicable regulations from the Code of Fede...

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Typically Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer

Electives

14 units are required

Clinical / Scientific Topics

CT: Science of Clinical Trials DesignFPM-40205

Units: 3.00

$595

This course reviews the nuts-and-bolts of effective clinical trial design and the basic anatomy of a clinical trial. Topics include trial designs by stage in drug/device development; the various types...

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Typically Offered: Winter, Summer

CT: Drug Safety: Surveillance and ReportingFPM-40206

Units: 2.00

$525

Common issues and concerns associated with drug safety surveillance within clinical trials are the focus of this course. Topics include the defining and identifying of adverse experiences, verifying d...

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Typically Offered: Fall

CT: Nuts and Bolts of Monitoring Clinical TrialsFPM-40187

Units: 2.00

$525

See the Site from the Sponsor's perspective: important for both monitors and coordinators. Topics include responsibilities of sponsors and investigators; qualifying investigators; regulatory document...

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Typically Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer

CT: Advanced Monitoring and Management of Clinical Trials and Next StepsFPM-40240

Units: 2.00

TBD

This is a hands-on interactive live course, demystifies advanced site management and monitoring of clinical trials. Learn how to deal with difficult sites, problem solve and work with multiple priorit...

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Typically Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer

CT: Understanding OncologyFPM-40493

Units: 3.00

$645

Concepts of cancer treatment and management will be communicated to the student through a series of web-based sessions, with a sharp focus on the terminology, pathology, diagnostics, disease managemen...

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Typically Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer

CT: Documents in Drug Development: Writing Protocols, Reports, Summaries, Submissions, and DisclosuresFPM-40685

Units: 3.00

$645

No clinical trial can begin until a protocol has been written, and no clinical trial is complete until the final report is assembled, signed, and submitted to the FDA. Good documentation for clinical ...

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Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

CT: Practical Clinical Statistics for the Non-StatisticianFPM-40233

Units: 2.00

$525

This course presents the statistics essentials for the non-statistician involved in clinical trials. Topics include study designs, hypothesis testing, sample size calculations, assumptions, controls, ...

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Typically Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer

CT: Monitoring Oncology TrialsFPM-40494

Units: 3.00

$645

Monitoring oncology clinical trials requires advanced skills, including understanding and maintaining complete regulatory documents; protocol data integrity; patient safety; and the successful compl...

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Typically Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer

Regulatory Topics

CT: Regulation of Drugs, Biologics, Devices, and DiagnosticsFPM-40189

Units: 3.00

$645

This course reviews the breadth of U.S. and international regulations associated with the development of drugs, biologics, medical devices, and diagnostics. Topics include a review of regulatory agenc...

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Typically Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer

Good Manufacturing PracticesBIOL-40000

Units: 3.00

$725

Gain a comprehensive understanding in FDA compliance with current good manufacturing practices (cGMPs), as regulated and guided by national and international agencies for the pharmaceutical and indust...

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Typically Offered: Winter, Summer

CT: Prospective Preparation for Internal and External AuditsFPM-40207

Units: 1.00

$325

This course provides a step-by-step outline of internal and external audits as well as ongoing actions that should be taken to prepare for an audit. Topics include types of audits; the audit process (...

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Typically Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer

Good Laboratory PracticesBIOL-40085

Units: 2.00

$645

By addressing fundamental regulatory compliance principles relative to the FDA's current Good Laboratory Practice regulations, this course will show how GLP's affect the conduct of non-clinical labora...

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Typically Offered: Winter, Summer

Project Management topics for sponsors of clinical trials

CT: Project Management in Clinical TrialsFPM-40656

Units: 3.00

$645

It has become increasingly more important to use solid project management principles when managing clinical trials. This course teaches the basic skills of project management derived from PMI principl...

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Typically Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer

CT: Clinical Study Implementation and ManagementFPM-40229

Units: 2.00

$525

Examine the elements involved in implementing and monitoring a clinical study from the sponsor s point of view. Topics include finalizing the study materials; site selection; staffing and training; st...

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Typically Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer

CT: Data Management Systems for Sponsors of Clinical TrialsFPM-40218

Units: 2.00

$525

This course is designed to assist clinical trials sponsors to design data capture methods, and to organize and manage clinical trial data collected from one or more investigative sites. Topics in...

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Typically Offered: Summer

CT: Site and Investigator RecruitmentFPM-40208

Units: 1.00

$325

This course is intended to help a clinical study sponsor recruit the appropriate sites and investigators for the study. Topics include sources of information on sites and investigators; approaching an...

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Typically Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer

CT: Working with Clinical Research Organizations (CROs)FPM-40228

Units: 1.00

$325

This course provides the clinical study sponsor strategies for working with a clinical research organization (CRO) to conduct the study. Topics include assessing internal capabilities and limitations,...

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Typically Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer

Project management topics for clinical trials sites

CT: Patient Recruitment for Clinical TrialsFPM-40191

Units: 1.00

TBD

Learn to assist the clinical study site in recruiting appropriate patients for a clinical trials study, including oncology trials. Topics include targeting the appropriate study population; resources ...

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Typically Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer

CT: Setting Up a New Clinical StudyFPM-40179

Units: 2.00

$525

As new clinical studies are designed and managed, each study should begin in a well-organized, well-planned manner. This online course assists the clinical study site in preparation for a new clinical...

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Typically Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer

Topics related to the environment surrounding clinical trials

CT: Financial Management of Clinical TrialsFPM-40338

Units: 1.00

$325

Designed to illuminate the financial management of a trial from the sponsor perspective, this survey course includes prioritization of spending, costs involved in conducting a clinical trial (costs in...

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Typically Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer

CT: Becoming a Clinical Trials Principal InvestigatorFPM-40527

Units: 1.00

TBD

This course is designed for the physician who wants to enter the clinical trials arena. Topics include: the benefits and responsibilities of conducting clinical trials, choosing an appropriate trial f...

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Typically Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer

CT: Pharmaco-Economics and Effectiveness TrialsFPM-40209

Units: 2.00

TBD

This course examines the economic factors that must be considered when pursuing the development of a drug/device. Topics include the definition of health economics; points in the development process a...

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Typically Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer

CT: Preceptorship in Clinical TrialsFPM-40230

Units: 1.00

TBD

The student consults with the instructional advisor to identify and secure an appropriate preceptorship assignment, fulfilling at least 20 hours of work associated with that assignment, writing a pape...

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Typically Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer

Industry Certification

  • All courses offered provide CE hours toward the Association of Clinical Research Professionals’ (ACRP) required education hours to maintain certification for the Certified Clinical Research Associate (CCRA) or Certified Clinical Research Coordinator (CCRC) credentials through ACRP. Visit ACRP at www.acrpnet.org
  • Extension’s certificate applies to Category 3 of Candidate Eligibility for the Society of Clinical Research Associates (SOCRA) Certified Clinical Research Professional (CCRP) credential. Visit the Society of Clinical Research Associates (SOCRA) at www.socra.org.

Conditions for Admission

Please see the application for specific admission requirements for this program. Although a college degree or professional experience in the field are not required, applicants with such experience may receive preference for admission when program capacity is limited.

Certificate Guidelines

The three required courses have no substitutes, and cannot be waived. "The Drug Development Process" must be taken first, after any prerequisites and before any electives. The 14 elective units may be from any/all elective categories in the matrix. Contact unexhealthcare@ucsd.edu or 858-534-9261 for guidance.

Military spouses are eligible to use My CAA $4000 scholarship. Apply at MyCAA.
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Industry Requirements

Those pursuing the Clinical Research Coordinator (CCRC) or Clinical Research Associate (CCRA) credentials through ACRP, or the Clinical Research Professional (CCRP) credentials through SoCRA, can fulfill educational requirements by completing this program. For information about ACRP certification, please go to http://www.acrpnet.org. For more information about SoCRA certification, please go to http://socra.org.

Advisory Board

Jan Agee, CCRA

Clinical Trials Consultant

Fred Fowler

Manager, Business Development

Aerotek Scientific LLC

Angela McMahill, JD, CHRC, CHC, CCRA

Executive Director, Research Compliance and Integrity

UCSD Office of Research Affairs

David Shapiro, MD

Chief Medical Officer and Executive VP, Development

Intercept Pharmaceuticals

Daniel Szpak, RN, CCRC

Clinical Research Nurse Manager

Clinical and Translational Research Institute (CTRI), UCSD

David Tanen, MD

Toxicology & Emergency Medicine

Emergency Medicine & Toxicology Legal Experts

Keith Vaux, MD

Clinical Professor of Pediatrics; Medical Director, CME

Rady Childrens Hospital SD

Terence Webb, PharmD, MBA

Consultant

MedVenture Consultants, Inc.

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This certificate requires an application before taking any courses. There will be a $0 fee to apply to this program. Students will also be required to pay a $95 certificate fee upon enrollment into the program after acceptance. View the complete Certificate Registration and Candidacy Guidelines.