Clinical Research Courses and Certifications

Faster Together, Enhancing the Recruitment of Marginalized Communities in Clinical Trials

97 ratings at Coursera

Vanderbilt University's 8-week course focuses on enhancing the recruitment of marginalized communities in clinical trials, covering diversity importance, community engagement, and effective communication.

• Coursera
• 9-10 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Microcredential

Qualitative Research Design and Methods for Public Health

Emory University's 22-week course equips public health professionals with skills in qualitative research design, data collection, and analysis using MAXQDA software.

• Coursera
• 22 weeks, 3 hours a week
• On-Demand
• Paid Course
• 3 courses

Health Systems Development: Health systems, Policy and Research

51 ratings at Coursera

Imperial College London offers a 4-week online course on global health systems, policy, and research. Learn to analyze health services, assess health impacts, and understand health system performance.

• Coursera
• 19 hours 9 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

MD Anderson Cancer Center

CERTaIN: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research

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Learn what comparative effectiveness research (CER) and patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) are and identify the difference between CER/PCOR studies and randomized controlled trials.

• edX
• 3 weeks, 3-4 hours a week
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

The Art and Science of Searching in Systematic Reviews

Learn systematic review searching methods applicable to various disciplines with this 5-week course from National University of Singapore. Gain skills in concept modelling, strategy synthesis, and result management.

• edX
• 5 weeks, 2-3 hours a week
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Introduction to Pharmacokinetics: From ADME to PK/PD

A critical aspect of a drug involves how a drug is dosed and circulates throughout the body of a patient. These qualities are aspects of a drug’s pharmacokinetics or PK. Pharmacokinetics encompasses how a drug is absorbed and flows through a patient unti…

• edX
• 3 weeks, 5-10 hours a week
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Literature Case Studies in Drug Discovery

Once a person understands the ideas of drug efficacy, potency, pharmacokinetics, and safety, original research articles can be readily understood. The Journal of Medicinal Chemistry of the American Chemical Society regularly publishes a series of article…

• edX
• 3 weeks, 5-10 hours a week
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Preclinical Safety: From In Vitro Assays to Human Dose Predictions

Drugs are approved based on their “safety and efficacy”. Determining the safety of a drug occurs through studies that are largely completely separate from efficacy studies. The safety studies fall under the umbrella of preclinical safety. While a drug’s…

• edX
• 3 weeks, 5-10 hours a week
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Measuring Pharmacodynamics: From Ligand Binding to Clinical Outcomes

Drugs are biologically active compounds. Drug discovery and drug development rely on methods for measuring biological activity. The term “activity” is quite general. In practice, a substance’s biological activity can refer to how a substance affects a bi…

• edX
• 3 weeks, 5-10 hours a week
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Lead Discovery & Optimization for Efficacy, PK, & Safety

Understanding the efficacy, potency, pharmacokinetics, and safety of compounds is important, but compounds almost always require improvement in their properties in order to become drugs. The process of improvement is called lead optimization and requires…

• edX
• 3 weeks, 5-10 hours a week
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Doing Clinical Research: Biostatistics with the Wolfram Language

48 ratings at Coursera

Learn to perform statistical tests and create plots using the Wolfram Language in this 4-week course by the University of Cape Town. No prior coding knowledge required.

• Coursera
• 15 hours 24 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

MD Anderson Cancer Center

CERTaIN: Knowledge Synthesis: Systematic Reviews and Clinical Decision Making

Learn how to interpret and report systematic review and meta-analysis results, and define strategies for searching and critically appraisingscientific literature.

• edX
• 3 weeks, 4-5 hours a week
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

MD Anderson Cancer Center

CERTaIN: Pragmatic Clinical Trials and Healthcare Delivery Evaluations

Learn the fundamentals of pragmatic clinical trials, including study design and basic analytic methods.

• edX
• 3 weeks, 4-5 hours a week
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

MD Anderson Cancer Center

CERTaIN: Observational Studies and Registries

Define several types of observational studies, interpret their results, and describe how health registries can be used to make decisions about best clinical care.

• edX
• 3 weeks, 4-5 hours a week
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Novartis

Introduction to Good Clinical Practice

103 ratings at Coursera

Novartis' 3-week course offers an introduction to Good Clinical Practice (GCP), covering key concepts, guidelines, and regulatory requirements for conducting clinical trials.

• Coursera
• 3 hours 8 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)