Curricular training in coordination of clinical trials in a clinical research unit

• Autor(a) principal: Salgueiro, Ana Cláudia Marques
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10773/14285
• topic: Medicina farmacêutica; Ensaios clínicos; Farmacovigilância

This report describes several activities and projects developed in the context of a curricular training in a clinical research unit, Centro de Investigação Clínica (CIC), led by Professor Joaquim Ferreira. The CIC is one of the research groups of Instituto de Medicina Molecular (IMM) and it is also a group of the Centro Académico de Medicina de Lisboa (CAML) consortium. The principal area of training was the coordination of clinical trials and observational studies. Additionally, other research activities were conducted during the training such as, pharmacovigilance, monitoring, data entry, medical writing and some language coordination activities in a European observational study about Huntington’s Disease founded by European Huntington’s Disease Network (EHDN). It is mention on the State of the Art the Research & Development Process of a new drug and it is characterised some issues about clinical research in Portugal, including advantages in the establishment and organisation of clinical networks. During the training, with the duration of 10 months (that started on 1st September 2013 and finished on 1st July 2014) I deepened my knowledge in clinical research area, understand the importance of the clinical research units, the importance and the role of the study coordinators and expand my areas of interest. The specific training focused in neurological clinical. I had opportunity to understand the practical and logistical difficulties that a research unit faces during the conduction of clinical studies I consider that this training was a valuable experience of introduction of the practice of clinical research. I finished this training with the motivation and interest in working in the area of coordination and monitoring of studies.