On May 28th, at the occasion of the International Clinical Trials Day celebrating the anniversary of the first trial conducted by James Lind on 20th May 1747, CIEC partnered up with CHL and organized an interactive and certified training in Good Clinical Practice (GCP), focussing on the writing of a protocol.
The protocol is the most important document and the key of success of a research project. This course taught the participants how to write a protocol by providing the basic elements according to GCP in the respect of ethical rules and protection of participants..
After successful completion of a test at the end of the training, the participants obtained a certificate documenting their knowledge of GCP.
With more than 80 participants , the training was a huge success and demonstrated the need for GCP trainings in the health care sector in Luxembourg.
The results of the participant’s satisfaction survey showed that the presentations of the national and international speakers (Prof Heather Sampson – University of Toronto, Dr Ingrid Klingmann – EFGCP and Dr. Michel Vaillant – Luxembourg Institute of Health) were highly appreciated with a very high overall level of participant satisfaction (94% indicated “satisfying” or “very satisfying”). 100% of the participants having returned the satisfaction questionnaire increased their knowledge by attending this training and 97% plan to attend another GCP training.
Dr. Gunness V.R.N, Medical Assistant neurosurgery at CHL agreed to share his impressions:
“It was a real pleasure to hear Prof Sampson talking about her experience in the field and about ethics, and how things are different in Canada and Europe for example.
Dr. Klingmann has a wealth of information and she realized how hard it is to put up a clinical trial.I was lucky to join the breakout session with Mrs Klingmann, she made us think outside of the box.
I gained a lot of knowledge on how to put in place a clinical trial, this should be done annually.”
CIEC thanks Dr. Gunness for his testimonial and takes the opportunity to announce a large GCP conference over two days dated 30 and 31 May 2017. More information will follow in due time or on demand.
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