Accredit Your Site Staff to International Standards
Ensure a Quality Built-In Clinical Research Workforce and Elevate Your Site’s Profile, Reputation and Impact.
Partnering with IAOCR to accredit your employees offers a multitude of benefits that can enhance your organization’s reputation and operational effectiveness. Through collaborating with IAOCR, you demonstrate a strong commitment to delivering high-quality research for your stakeholders, positioning you as a ‘Partner of Choice’ for clinical trials. You also show dedication as an employer to investing in professional development through site staff certification and accreditation for clinical research staff, ensuring recognised standards across your workforce. Furthermore, the bespoke insights IAOCR can provide from the accreditation process can directly support the development and/or streamlining of your training solutions, focusing on competence-based, targeted programs that enhance efficiency and elevate the overall skill set of your workforce.
IAOCR Professional Accreditations for Site-Staff include:
- ICH-GCP
- Foundations in Clinical Research
- Clinical Research Investigator
- Clinical Research Site Manager
- Clinical Research Nurse
- Clinical Research Coordinator
We also work with organizations to create bespoke combined training and accreditation programs.
Contact us to find out more.
"Qualifying staff to work in clinical trials based on number of years’ experience provides false reassurance of quality and also fuels the industry’s talent crisis. When an individual gains IAOCR accreditation I know they have been robustly competence checked… …The IAOCR approach reduces risk to clinical research and provides a reliable and trusted pathway for new talent."
Sam Kerr
Merz Aesthetics
Chief Scientific Officer
"I would absolutely recommend IAOCR. They’ve really helped us over the last couple of years, re-organize the way we deliver training. I think the way they go about their business is very diligent, it’s quite strict, which I think you need when you’re setting up levels of competence for the industry. IAOCR have really helped us shape out thoughts around competence over the last four or five years."
Alistair MacDonald
Syneos Health
CEO
Reassurance for Your Stakeholders and Research Participants:
Accrediting your employees through clinical trial site staff certification provides assurance to your stakeholders that your clinical research teams are:
Independently Verified for Competence: Employees are rigorously assessed to confirm their competency to perform their role safely and credibly.
Adhering to Global Best Practices: Our accreditation assessments are developed from the core global competency frameworks identified and ratified by global industry experts.
Professionally Accredited: Our accreditations are recognized internationally, enhancing the credibility of your team to work globally through site staff certification.
Committed to Quality: Accrediting staff through CRC accreditation and the principal investigator accreditation program demonstrates your organization’s commitment to ensuring a ‘right first time’ and ‘quality built in’ approach.
Position your Site/Site Network as a ‘Trusted Global Partner’ for Clinical Research
Differentiation for your organization: Leverage your investment in clinical research site staff accreditation and the independent accreditation of your staff to ‘set you apart’ as a leading and ‘trusted’ provider of clinical trials.
Marketing support from IAOCR Team: Become part of the IAOCR Global Best Practices Community and receive marketing support directly from IAOCR to showcase your commitment to clinical trial site staff certification and global quality standards.
Attract, Engage and Retain Staff
Employers who actively invest in the professional development of their staff through clinical research site staff accreditation and accreditation for clinical research staff:
Instill confidence in the competence of self & team.
Tailor training and development to address competence gaps identified.
Improve employer brand experience; evidence your commitment to ensuring your staff are ‘best-in-class’ for the industry.
Attract & retain staff through providing professional development, such as clinical trial site staff certification, and competence-based career pathways.
Safeguard Your Research Investment, Your Participants and Your Reputation
A competent workforce supports E8 (R1) compliance through embedding a ‘right first time’ and ‘quality built in’ approach at the workforce level through clinical research site staff accreditation and accreditation for clinical research staff.
Reduce risk from errors and litigation; bring new treatments to market more quickly and safely.
Why Choose IAOCR Professional Accreditation?
Standards are developed with and ratified by global clinical research experts worldwide through clinical research site staff accreditation frameworks.
Accreditations are mapped to the International Standard Classification of Education framework developed by UNESCO, ensuring international recognition with employers and educational establishments globally through clinical trial site staff certification.
Robust and independent verification of competence; accreditation programs carefully designed to examine knowledge, skills and behaviour through competence-based assessment.
Candidates are awarded: Certificate of Accreditation, designatory letters (Q-IAOCR / QM-IAOCR), electronic professional accreditation mark, internationally accepted learning credits, Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Points under site staff certification pathways.
Employers receive (where required) a comprehensive gap analysis report identifying competence gaps which can be addressed through targeted training and/or updates to training material, aligned with CRC accreditation and principal investigator accreditation program standards.
How We Work with Organizations?
Every site/site network we work with has unique priorities, and we tailor our support to meet each partner’s goals. Some choose clinical trial site staff certification for all staff in ICH-GCP, while others focus on the principal investigator accreditation program or CRC accreditation for Investigators and Coordinators. Many organizations work with us on an ad-hoc basis, while others establish long-term partnerships to deliver integrated training and accreditation for clinical research staff. Whatever your needs, we’ll help you find the approach that best fits your organization.
Learn from our Clients
"At Re:Cognition Health, we are always working on ways to improve quality and efficiency in our clinical trials, which means having a fantastic team. We implemented the IAOCR individual accreditations this year, as a way of externally assessing our staff team’s understanding and application of ICH GCP to their roles and duties, as well as assessing their wider understanding of clinical trials. This process has helped us recognize, company-wide our wonderful staff and supported their professional development. More importantly, it has helped us identify training gaps, so we can consider additional training need."
Vicky Eyre
Re:Cognition Health
UK Director of Clinical Trials
Start Your Accreditation Journey Today
Working with IAOCR is a supportive and collaborative journey, and we work with our clients every step, ensuring that the process is tailored to specific needs and requirements. Contact us to find out more about the different ways we can work together to help you achieve your organizational development and workforce goals.