If a clinical trial was a 747, …then the subjects would be the passengers …and the flight crew the site staff. Imagine if the airline industry used meetings and powerpoint to train their flight crew rather than simulation! We would all be doing a lot more driving and...

While meetings are an excellent way to network with investigators and study coordinators, they are proven to be the least effective way to educate medical professionals and to give them the skills required to be effective at their jobs. We spend tens of millions on...

GCP and Pharmacovigilance training is a requirement for all sites that participate in clinical trials. Non- compliance with ICH GCP E6(R2) regulations results in inspection findings, cost overruns, data rejection, and potential study delays. As a result, sponsors...

How many stories have you heard where mistakes - made by clinical research sites - caused problems in a study, or even worse, patient injury? The practice of medicine is inherently risky given the consequences of mistakes or misinformation. This is even more the case...

Air travel is really safe. You have a greater chance of being struck by lightning or attacked by a bear while you read this article than dying on a US commercial flight. That’s because the odds of dying in the US commercial plane crash are near zero* (approximately 50...

Guess what this is. Spirograph? Really complicated Venn Diagram? If you guessed either of those you would have been close. This is actually the “code” for a Pro-ficiency simulation. The dots, “nodes”, all represent a scene in a choose-your-own-adventure style...

Last week I was on a climbing trip in Austria. At the most challenging part of the climb, I found myself 2000 meters above ground on an overhanging cliff (thanks to my girlfriend for taking the awesome pic above). While in this apparently precarious situation, I was...