A $50 billion industry that conducts clinical research on human beings should ensure that everyone it employs is competent and working to professional standards

IAOCR is the world leader in clinical research competence verification and accreditation.
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Key Benefits for Organizations, Sites and Clinical Research Professionals

Benefits for Pharma and CROs
- Reduces risk – brings new treatments to market more quickly and safely
- Reduces costs through increased workforce effectiveness, performance and efficiency
- Ensures E8 (R1) compliance –Evidences a ‘right first time’ and ‘quality built in’ approach through robust independent accreditation
- Win and retain business by demonstrating commitment to industry best practice standards.
- Creates a point of differentiation by positioning your organization as a ‘Centre of Excellence’ for clinical research trials
- Provides transparency for, and reassures stakeholders through clearly recognizable quality marks
- Competence based career pathways for employees. Allows employer to tailor performance development to address competence gaps
- Improves employee attraction, engagement and retention. Improves health and wellbeing of your team.

Benefits for Commercial and NHS Sites
- Reduces risk – brings new treatments to market more quickly and safely
- Reduces costs through increased workforce effectiveness, performance and efficiency
- Ensures E8 (R1) compliance –Evidences a ‘right first time’ and ‘quality built in’ approach through robust independent accreditation
- Provides transparency for and reassures sponsors and CROs through clearly recognizable quality marks
- Creates a point of differentiation by positioning your site as a ‘Centre of Excellence’ for clinical research trials
- Improves employee attraction, engagement and retention. Enhances health and well-being of your team
- Competence based career pathways for clinical trial site-staff. Allows employer to tailor performance development to address competence gaps.

Benefits for Individual Clinical Research Professionals
- Professional recognition – Certificate of Accreditation evidencing IAOCR Internationally Qualified Professional Status
- Professional Certification Mark with unique professional registration number and award of designatory letters
- Advance your career development and differentiate yourself in the employment market by demonstrating your competence through robust independent accreditation
- Increased confidence in your competence
- Become part of an internationally recognized quality assurance system
- Gain recognised learning credits and CPE (Continuing Professional Education Points

Benefits for Clinical Research Training Organizations
- Expand your business
- Increase income from learners/participants
- Enhance your brand and position your organization as a ‘training centre of choice’
- Provide your learners with an industry leading which is independent, robust, and internationally recognizable
- Reassures your learners/participants that you are committed to embedding best practice standards and professionalizing the industry,
- Provides a ‘value add’ to your existing training offer by offering your learners the opportunity to evidence their competence and advance their career
- Distinctive IAOCR Quality Assurance Mark for use on all training and marketing materials to help you attract learners
What we do
IAOCR accreditation services ensure that competency verification is at the core of your organization, to build a workforce that is quality assured to ‘best-in-class’ global standards. This plays a big part in reducing risk in clinical research which helps safeguard patients and protect your reputation and your investment.
IAOCR provide a comprehensive range of internationally recognized accreditations, which have been built specifically for the clinical research industry in collaboration with industry leaders globally, and from across a range of organizations including Pharmaceutical, CROs, Sites, Government and Regulatory Bodies.
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