The ‘Workforce Innovation Steering Committee’ (WISC) provides a unique opportunity for organizations to partner with ACRP and provide insight and advice on the areas in need of standardization, innovation, or solutions designed to prepare the clinical research workforce to respond to the changing professional requirements resulting from industry change. We are seeking volunteers to participate in two new task forces focused on developing standard, competency-based approaches to training and on-boarding professionals in entry level roles (e.g., CRCs, CRAs, CTAs) and identifying the most effective ways to assess and validate competencies.
For more information about the WISC, please click here.
To download and review the competency guidelines developed by prior WISC taskforces click here:
https://acrpnet.org/workforce-innovation-steering-committee/
Competency-Based Training for Entry-Level Roles Task Force Opportunity:
What is expected of the volunteer? Interested volunteers will
- Evaluate and provide feedback on the conceptual framework for creating a standardized, competency-based on-boarding curriculum for entry level roles (CRC, CTA, CRA, PI/Sub-I)
- Collect and evaluate training resources, methods, tools, approaches, agendas existing within the public domain as well as sharing resources from their institutions
- With the goal of providing:
- Recommended training “roadmaps” for how best to train and on-board new professionals with the core foundational competencies to
- Set them up for success in their initial roles
- Encourage life-long careers in clinical research with a strong foundation
When will the project start / end? We are targeting a late July / early August start to the project which will likely run for ~6 months.
How much time commitment is expected? Volunteers will participate in several web-conferences (1-2 per month lasting 1-2 hours) along with some independent work gathering and reviewing materials. Over the course of the project it is anticipated that volunteers will spend up to ~20 hours supporting the initiative.