DEVELOPING A GLOBAL CORE COMPETENCY FRAMEWORK FOR CLINICAL RESEARCH PA 116 DEVELOPING A GLOBAL CORE COMPETENCY FRAMEWORK FOR CLINICAL RESEARCH Amélie Julé, Tamzin Furtado, Liam Boggs, François Van Log[.]
Downloaded from http://gh.bmj.com/ on February 26, 2017 - Published by group.bmj.com Abstracts PA-116 DEVELOPING A GLOBAL CORE COMPETENCY FRAMEWORK FOR CLINICAL RESEARCH Amộlie Julộ, Tamzin Furtado, Liam Boggs, Franỗois Van Loggerenberg, Trudie Lang Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, University of Oxford, United Kingdom 10.1136/bmjgh-2016-000260.145 Background Lack of recognition for working in clinical research is widely cited as an impediment to its conduct There is a lack of career structure for the many roles involved (investigators, trial managers, nurses, etc.), and a lack of understanding of who does what Competency frameworks exist for some individual job roles, but these are infrequent; thus the need for a global framework describing roles and responsibilities in a research team This would facilitate appraisal of staff, promote career development by highlighting acquired skills, and illuminate areas where training opportunities are lacking Methods In this project, we combine 28 frameworks created by external groups, with information from 116 job descriptions obtained from partners in clinical trial units worldwide, including input from the EDCTP Networks of Excellence, and from the web, to create a widely-encompassing framework derived from 11 different roles Using qualitative analysis software, we systematically assess the activities performed by the clinical research team to categorise them and define underlying knowledge-, skill- or task-based competencies Results The resulting framework counts 50 competencies required throughout the research life cycle, from assessment of scientific literature to results dissemination via project A54 BMJ Glob Health 2017;2(Suppl 2):A1–A67 Downloaded from http://gh.bmj.com/ on February 26, 2017 - Published by group.bmj.com Abstracts management, public engagement or grant application It is applicable to studies that may differ in design, geographical location, disease, etc., and can be adapted to the particular needs of specific projects or roles The framework was subject to an initial validation through consultations with over 30 global health research experts in collaboration with WHO-TDR in September 2015, resulting in enhancements and its subsequent beta release Conclusions The adaptable ‘Global Core Competency Framework for Clinical Research’ is now accessible via The Global Health Network, alongside a protocol for individuals who may wish to pilot test it in their work The framework may be further refined before being finally approved and launched in collaboration with WHO-TDR BMJ Glob Health 2017;2(Suppl 2):A1–A67 A55 Downloaded from http://gh.bmj.com/ on February 26, 2017 - Published by group.bmj.com DEVELOPING A GLOBAL CORE COMPETENCY FRAMEWORK FOR CLINICAL RESEARCH Amộlie Julộ, Tamzin Furtado, Liam Boggs, Franỗois Van Loggerenberg and Trudie Lang BMJ Glob Health 2017 2: A54-A55 doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2016-000260.145 Updated information and services can be found at: http://gh.bmj.com/content/2/Suppl_2/A54.3 These include: Open Access This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Email alerting service Receive free email alerts when new articles cite this article Sign up in the box at the top right corner of the online article Topic Collections Articles on similar topics can be found in the following collections Open access (331) Notes To request permissions go to: http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions To order reprints go to: http://journals.bmj.com/cgi/reprintform To subscribe to BMJ go to: http://group.bmj.com/subscribe/ ... group.bmj.com DEVELOPING A GLOBAL CORE COMPETENCY FRAMEWORK FOR CLINICAL RESEARCH Amộlie Julộ, Tamzin Furtado, Liam Boggs, Franỗois Van Loggerenberg and Trudie Lang BMJ Glob Health 2017 2: A5 4 -A5 5 doi:... global health research experts in collaboration with WHO-TDR in September 2015, resulting in enhancements and its subsequent beta release Conclusions The adaptable ? ?Global Core Competency Framework. .. Competency Framework for Clinical Research? ?? is now accessible via The Global Health Network, alongside a protocol for individuals who may wish to pilot test it in their work The framework may be further