Tips for New Coordinator Training

Tips for Training New Coordinators

• Discuss gray areas
  • The issues faced by clinical research coordinators do not always have clear-cut solutions.
  • Discuss potential issues with your new coordinator and help him or her work through possible solutions.
• Provide real world examples throughout training
  • If a coordinator shadows or gets hands-on experience from the beginning, they can more successfully comprehend training materials.
  • This facilitates learning and makes training more effective.
• Incorporate longitudinal education into the coordinator’s position
  • Coordinators can benefit from formal and informal education in the months and years after they are hired.
  • Use experiences with patients and challenges that arise as opportunities to further educate coordinators.
• Emphasize the importance of balancing numerous tasks
  • Clinical research coordinators have many responsibilities, including collecting data from participants, performing the informed consent process, monitoring trial procedures, and ensuring that research guidelines are followed.
  • Exposing coordinators to all of their responsibilities from the beginning and advising them on how to best juggle multiple tasks will be extremely beneficial.