Are Your Sites Failing Your Training? If Not, They Should Be!

By Beth Harper, Chief Learning Officer at Pro-ficiency,

Did you know that 100% of a seasoned clinical research audience attending a recent webinar all agreed on the key metric that should define investigative site training success?  Can you guess what that was?

It had nothing to do with timely completion of training, accuracy on protocol knowledge checks, or site satisfaction of the training approach.  Instead, there was unanimous agreement that site training success should be defined as zero defects.  More specifically zero IMPORTANT protocol deviations.  That’s a lofty goal for sure, especially since we know that too many of these IMPORTANT protocol deviations can sink your trial.  But we are convinced that the goal of zero important deviations is absolutely achievable with the right training strategy and methodology.   Certainly, this assumes a reasonable study design but barring insurmountable protocol-related issues, there is really no reason why studies should suffer from “deviation-itis.”