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ACRP, Pro-ficiency Partnership Signals New Era in Clinical Research Workforce Competency Development

 

Washington, DC – Clinical research workforce development is taking a major step into the future thanks to a partnership announced today by the Association of Clinical Research Professionals (ACRP) and Pro-ficiency.

The new partnership brings together two of the world’s leading providers of clinical research workforce development solutions, and will empower ACRP to provide a next-generation, competence-based professional development experience to its global network of 50,000-plus clinical research professionals and organizations.

“Despite the important role clinical trials play in the development of new drugs and therapies, our industry has too often and for too long approached workforce development with a ‘check box’ mentality—ensuring compliance with training requirements, but failing to adequately develop competency or raise the standard of clinical trial conduct,” says Jim Kremidas, ACRP Executive Director. “By connecting clinical research professionals and organizations with cutting-edge development programs, this partnership will usher in a new era in workforce development that will fully unlock the potential of our profession.”

The partnership pairs ACRP’s industry-leading training and development programs with Pro-ficiency’s revolutionary compliance management system that reveals key insights into team competency.

“Organizations who partner with ACRP will now have actionable data they can use to assess team competency and to make informed decisions about staff development activities with a rigorous focus on mitigating risk and addressing performance gaps,” Kremidas says. 

The Pro-ficiency compliance management system removes the mystery and challenges of staff development. With a user-friendly interface, training administrators can easily manage users, assign and track completion of development programs, and access certificates of completion required for regulatory and protocol compliance. User-specific data provided for each development program provides administrators and leadership with valuable insights into areas for additional training and risk mitigation activities. 

ACRP and Pro-ficiency will also collaborate in developing ACRP’s portfolio of competency-based simulation modules that will enable clinical trial staff to master key skills. 

“Experiential learning, or learning by doing, is the most effective way to train teams on critical processes and skills. Simulation-based training personalizes the learner experience, improving knowledge acquisition and increasing retention of key learnings,” says JoAnne Schaberick, Co-CEO of Pro-ficiency.

“By leveraging Pro-ficiency’s proven expertise developing practical, application-based learning programs that employ effective, simulation-based training methodologies, ACRP is reinventing traditional online learning in the clinical research enterprise with a focus on true competency development,” Kremidas adds.

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ACRP and Pro-ficiency will showcase the power of this new partnership at the 2020 SCOPE conference in Orlando, Florida, February 18-21.

 

About ACRP

In clinical research, people are everything. ACRP raises clinical research standards and accelerates careers. Better people. Better results. www.acrpnet.org 

 

About Pro-ficiency

Pro-ficiency is a comprehensive human performance improvement system for clinical trials. Initiate trial sites faster and more efficiently and reduce protocol violations with our easy-to-use web-based platform. Learn more at proficiency3.wpengine.com.

Pro-ficiency, the simulation training company for clinical trials, will be at the 2019 SCOPE conference in Orlando Florida.
“We are excited to demonstrate the benefits of using simulation training to improve the quality of clinical trials,” said CoCEO Dave Hadden. “Clinical operations is overdue for technology-based enhancement as research costs continue to rise.”

Pro-ficiency is based in Durham, the heart of the Research Triangle and the headquarters of large CROs, medical technology and pharmaceutical companies.
“Our sales are increasing significantly year-over-year, so pharmaceutical sponsors are seeing the value of improving the way they manage sites and investigators in the clinical trial process. It’s important for patient safety and trial efficiency that we use the best technology available” commented Laura Nufire, Pro-ficiency’s Director of Clinical Operations & Project Management.

Hadden continued, “Simulation is the gold standard for other high-risk industries like aviation, surgery and space exploration. At Pro-ficiency, we have cracked the code for bringing these benefits to clinical research and we have dozens of global studies to validate the benefits of this approach. A huge advantage to using Pro-ficiency to train investigator sites is that all staff can be trained, and at any time. The turnover rate at sites is no longer a problem, nor is bringing on additional sites during the trial. And our analytics dashboard can show the CRO/sponsor exactly how sites are doing, areas they need help with (at an individual or aggregated level), and who has or hasn’t completed the training. It’s a vast improvement over the current Investigator Meeting / eLearning model for training.”

Pro-ficiency is on the cutting edge of clinical trial technology and will be demonstrating how virtual reality can be utilized to extend their experiential learning platform even further. “Virtual Reality is closer and easier to implement than you think. It’s portable, immersive and inexpensive now,” commented Dmitri Medvedev, Director of Content Realization.
“Meetings and powerpoints just don’t stick. Introducing on-line simulation training will transform your protocol, GCP, PV and SOP training from a cost center into a powerful human performance management system,” commented CoCEO JoAnne Schaberick.
Pro-ficiency will be at Table 1 in the 2019 SCOPE Conference for Clinical Operations Executive in Orlando.

About Pro-ficiency

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Pro-ficiency provides a comprehensive human performance improvement system for clinical trials. We leverage simulation to provide real-word training for sites and subjects. Pharmaceutical Sponsors use Pro-ficiency to initiate trial sites faster and more efficiently and to preempt potential protocol deviations. With the help of Pro-ficiency, sites decrease study time by as much as 30% and Sponsors lower costs, reduce meetings, conduct early protocol feasibility, and predict and avoid study errors.

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• The Pro-ficiency Advantage
• The simulation-based training system promotes activated and “deep” learning
• Training available at any time for any site user (and new site staff)
• “Real-world,” simulated clinical challenges keep the learner engaged and demonstrate their understanding
• Easily identify engaged sites and site Heroes
• Analytics show how site staff are doing and predict error
• FDA CFR 21 Parts 820 and 11-compliant system
• Training audit trail and smart-certificates (expiration and renewal)
• SOP, GCP & pharmacovigilance modules available
• Training can easily be updated for amendments
• Subtitles in multiple languages available as needed
• Can replace or augment traditional Investigator Meetings