Training Courses and Resources

Edinburgh Clinical Trials Management Course (ECTMC) 2025

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This course will take place on Thursday 6th & Friday 7th November 2025 at the John McIntyre Conference Centre in Edinburgh.

This two-day course has been running for more than two decades to support the professional development of anyone involved or interested in clinical trial management, including Clinical Trial Administrators, Trial Assistants, Trial Officers, Trial Coordinators, Trial Management Support Officers (TMSO), Assistant Trial Managers (ATMs), Trial Managers (TMs), and related roles.

The aims of the course are:

• To develop attendees’ knowledge and skills in clinical trial management.
• To improve attendees’ understanding of related disciplines including research governance, regulation, trial methodology, data management, monitoring, and project management, with a view to effective teamworking.
• To highlight the importance of patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE), the need for efficiency in trial design and conduct, and how to consider sustainability in trials. These threads will run through the whole course.

The course consists of a variety of workshops, practical tasks and lectures. Interactive sessions cover key topics associated with setting up and delivering clinical trials. Sessions provide practical guidance and facilitate discussion, information exchange and provide plenty of networking opportunities.

The course is co-delivered by The Universities of Edinburgh and Aberdeen. 

Course Fees:

• NHS/Academic rate = £550
• Optional course dinner (06 Nov 2025) = £35
• Industry rate (inc dinner) = £985

Register at https://edin.ac/3RGb0mB

Planning & Conducting a Systematic Review Course 2025

Planning & Conducting a Systematic Review

Monday 10 November - Thursday 20 November 2025 

Online     |   (Zoom)

This course will enable delegates to understand the process of how the systematic review is put into action and to complete a systematic review involving quantitative studies. The teaching will include online lectures spread over two weeks and some hands-on practice using a range of tools and resources that are available to help researchers carry out reviews. The teaching material will include themed examples spanning both clinical and public health research.

Note - you should schedule two hours daily in addition to the live sessions for the completion of pre-course work.

The live Q&A sessions (13:00-14:00 each weekday) are an opportunity to interact with the course tutors to discuss questions from the pre-session material.

Target Audience:

This course is suitable for those planning on doing systematic reviews and also anyone needing to evaluate and interpret existing systematic review evidence. Therefore, this course is widely applicable to researchers, healthcare professionals and students.

Objectives

• Evaluate existing systematic review protocols
• Design and report a protocol with items corresponding to PROSPERO and/or PRISMA-P
• Understand the process of how to implement a protocol to complete a systematic review
• Evaluate and interpret existing full publications of systematic reviews

 Course Fees: *** Note - we offer a £20 discount on course fees if paying by debit/credit card - see below rates***

• Student (matriculation details required) = £180

• NHS Lothian/University of Edinburgh = £240• Other NHS/Academic = £380

• Industry = £740 

Register at  https://edin.ac/3HtHDSw

Training Directories

UK Clinical Research Collaboration (UKCRC)

UKCRC Partners’ goal is to establish the UK as a world leader in clinical research.

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Edinburgh Clinical Research Facility Education Programme

There are courses covering:

• NRS Introduction to Good Clinical Practice
• consent for research – legal, ethical and practical issues
• evidence-based healthcare
• literature searching
• managing your references using Endnote
• qualitative methods
• questionnaire design
• statistics
• submitting a successful ethics application
• writing and publication

You can find details of all the courses running in Edinburgh via the Edinburgh Clinical Research Facility (previously WTCRF) website.

Edinburgh-based course details - Edinburgh, Education Programme

Clinical Research Training for Scotland

This is a resource for all health professionals interested in clinical research training opportunities across Scotland.

Developed by the Edinburgh Clinical Research Facility (previously WTCRF) at the University of Edinburgh, with funds from NHS Education for Scotland (NES), it includes training courses run by Clinical Research Facilities in Scotland; (Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Inverness, Dundee and Glasgow), NHS Health Boards, R&D centres and Scottish Universities. In the future it is hoped to cover all clinical research training providers across Scotland.

Edinburgh Clinical Research Facility – courses across Scotland

RD Learning

Hosted by the National Institute for Health Research in England, RD Learning details research training and postgraduate degrees across the UK.

RD Learning [via the University of Leeds]