Ineffective or redundant training for investigators wastes time, resources, and does not prepare investigators for the quality conduct of clinical trials. Rather than accepting GCP training as the default solution for qualifying investigators to conduct clinical trials, CTTI is collecting evidence to determine effective and efficient approaches.

While good clinical practice (GCP) training has become the standard for qualifying investigators to conduct clinical trials, little evidence has been collected to determine whether this training is providing the necessary knowledge and skills. CTTI’s new Investigator Qualification Project will evaluate current approaches to investigator qualification, including GCP training, and issue recommendations on effective and efficient methods for investigators to become qualifiehttps://ctti-clinicaltrials.org/projects/investigator-qualification-gcp-trainingd to conduct clinical trials. Investigators, research sponsors, and trial participants are all expected to benefit from an improved investigator qualification process.

CTTI previously released recommendations to address the issue of staff being required to take GCP training before each clinical trial, often multiple times each year. The Investigator Qualification Project is an extension of this work and will focus on the quality of training. CTTI will gather evidence to identify gaps and redundancies in current training, as well as suggest other ways of ensuring that investigators are qualified for the quality conduct of clinical trials.