Clinical trials are the gold standard of medical advancement, but designing and conducting them requires a wide range of knowledge and skills not often taught in medical or graduate school.
Mayo Clinic's new Clinical Trialist Training Program teaches physicians and researchers how to design and implement clinical trials.
"We are true pioneers in this area," says Prasad Iyer, M.D., chair of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and director of the new program. "Right now, there are no standards for training clinical trialists. We are blazing a new but much-needed path..."
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