FREE ONLINEULTRASOUND COURSES

 Our research-based and practice-proven teaching strategies help you to reach your goals. We won’t overload you with overcrowded slides, complex statistics and endless rows of numbers. Our lectures are fun, inspiring, emotional, practical and rich in examples and cases. How does our 123 approach differ from other approaches? 

Each course contains highly relevant contents in the medical education of ultrasound. Topics range from echocardiography including TEE to critical care (emergency), vascular and abdominal ultrasound. We can help you reach your personal goals: prepare for exams, improve your medical, clinical and diagnostic skills. Our training sessions include high-quality video lectures, cases, webinars, quizzes and an instant review of your performance. Are you are interested in an hands-on-training course? We offer special live course offers to our members. So start now and get instant access! Benefit from state-of-the-art education in medicine and become an ultrasound expert the smart way: online, anywhere, anytime you please! Our research-based and practice-proven education in medicine helps you to reach your goals. We won’t overload you with overcrowded slides, complex statistics and endless rows of numbers. Each course is fun, inspiring, emotional, practical and rich in examples and cases. How does our 123 approach differ from other approaches? Check it out:

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Online Training Courses

Below are links to other e-learning resources that are available on-line either free or at low cost. We recommend these resources as they help to support and enhance clinical research. Although many are disease specific their content is often adaptable:

Pharma Lessons offer several free online training courses in the form of short presentations, prepared for the pharmaceutical & biotech industry. Currently on offer are Good Clinical Practice (GCP) Training, Good Distribution Practice (GDP) Training, Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) Training and Good Pharmacovigilance Practice (GVP) Training.http://www.pharmalessons.com

The Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research in collaboration with the Oxford Maternal & Perinatal Health Institute have developed two online training courses:The evidence-based management of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia:http://www.gfmer.ch/SRH-Course-2010/pre-eclampsia-University-of-Oxford/index.htmThe evidence-based management of postpartum haemorrhage:http://www.gfmer.ch/omphi/pph/course.htm

NIH clinical research training online. This training is freely available online and is very comprehensive. However, it is focussed to clinical trials in the United States and so may not be applicable in all regions:http://www.cc.nih.gov/training/training/crt.html

Pharma School has some free training content:http://www.pharmaschool.co/

USAID have a Global Health eLearning Centre giving online training on specific disease topics including ‘Introduction to Mobile Technology for Health‘:http://www.globalhealthlearning.org/login.cfm

This is a free online course on statistics for clinical trials:http://onlinestatbook.com/index.html

John Hopkins Bloomburg School of Public Health offer these free online disease-related courses:http://ocw.jhsph.edu/

The HINARI ‘Access to Research in Health’ Programme was set up by WHO together with major publishers to enable developing countries to gain access to one of the world’s largest collections of biomedical and health literature.  Access is free or at a reduced cost for eligible countrieshttp://www.healthinternetwork.org/

The Wellcome Trust offer advanced training courses and scientific conferences.  For these they provide limited bursaries for non-commercial applicants to cover up to 100% of the course fee.  Funding is also  available to assist with travel costs.http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Education-resources/Courses-and-conferences/index.htm

The ‘Training and Resources in Research Ethics Evaluation’ (TRREE) website offers completely open access and free of charge basic training modules on research ethics and regulation.  The learning material is currently available in English, French, German and Portuguese.http://elearning.trree.org/

Working To Empower is a non-profit and non-governmental organization working to empower sustainable, community-based change.  The website provides a range of free articles, videos and resources in a wide variety of languages.http://www.workingtoempower.org/index.php?lang=en

The Health Education and Training Programme (HEAT) provide free courses which are designed for healthcare workers studying in sub-Saharan Africahttp://www8.open.ac.uk/africa/heat/heat-resources.

The EQUATOR Network is an international initiative that seeks to enhance reliability and value of medical research literature by promoting transparent and accurate reporting of research studies. The EQUATOR Network produce resources, education and training relating to the reporting of health research and use of reporting guidelines.http://www.equator-network.org/

The University of Alabama School of Medicine have produced multiple training materials for basic biostatics concepts and tools. All modules are free and availible as video, Powerpoint and PDF:http://statcourse.dopm.uab.edu/Coursematerial.htm

The Association of Schools of Public Health provide a free, open access course on Ethics and Public Health: Model Curriculumhttp://www.asph.org/document.cfm?page=782

The People’s Open Access Education Initiative (Peoples-uni) is helping to build international Public Health capacity using Internet-based e-learning at a greatly reduced cost:http://peoples-uni.org/

The Global Health Reviewers e-learning page contains links to a wide range of independent courses for committee members who review research for ethics committees, review boards or regulatory committees, or for those developing protocols for review:http://globalhealthreviewers.tghn.org/elearning/

Coursera provide several courses in Health and Society and Medical Ethics. these courses are on a scheduled basis and only availible at certain dates throughout the year:https://www.coursera.org/category/health

The University of Southampton have developed an eLearning portal dedicated to nutrition and public health nutrition learning:https://www.som.soton.ac.uk/learn/test/nutrition/Default.asp

The University of the Western Cape and the Multi-disciplinary University Traditional Health Initiative (MUTHI) have combined to produce excellent courses for Clinical trials in herbal medicine. To register for free please visit:http://muthi.uwc.ac.za/

The University of Sheffield offers three new health related courses through Blackboard’s CourseSites platfor. These courses can be accessed via Blackboards massive open online courses (MOOCs):https://scharrmoocs.coursesites.com/?goback=.gde_120372_member_244510837

Consortium of Universities fo Global Health (CUGH) offers a bi – weekly feature: a case – series from rural Uganda called “Reasoning without Resources”.The target audience is clinicians practicing in low resource settings, medicine and family medicine residents, and senior medical students with an interest in clinical global health.http://www.cugh.org/resources/case-studies-reasoning-without-resources

Knowledge for Health provide many resources aimed at improving access to and sharing of global, regional, and country-specific public health knowledge, particularly about family planning and reproductive healthhttp:http://www.k4health.org/resources

MPH Programs have curated resources featuring over 140+ internship opportunities, 200+ free online public health courses including many on Epidemiology, chronic & infectious diseases as well as the most in demand jobs & careers: http://mphprogramslist.com/

Clinical Trials Network provide a free online Good Clinical Practice training course. The Good Clinical Practice (GCP) online training consists of 12 modules. Each module discusses a specific GCP standard. General conduct of research standards are also presented:http://gcp.nihtraining.com/login.php?lo=true

The Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute offer an online diagnostic medical parasitology training course complete with a virtual microscope entitled Introduction to Diagnostic Medical Parasitology for both Protozoa and Helminths:http://www.parasite-diagnosis.ch/

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GCP online training COURSE

FREE online training for individuals, academic and private organisations.The Better Industry Initiative provides free quality training resources, relevant to the prerequisites, challenges and goals of clinical researchers and thereby encourages the professional development of current and future clinical research practitioners. The ultimate goal of the Bii is to better serve patients by equipping future and current industry professionals with more refined skills and workflow efficiency tools, in order to achieve better results.

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Harvard Online Learning courses

Harvard Online Learning (free on line courses)

Explore Harvard’s extensive, world-class online learning opportunities. We invite you to follow your intellectual curiosity, from podcasts and lectures to fully interactive courses and programs

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Clinical Research Training On-Line….By NIH

Objectives

Objectives of the course are:

• To be aware of the ethical issues involved in human subjects research;
• To become familiar with the roles and responsibilities of the principal investigator and the institution when conducting clinical research in the NIH intramural research program;
• To have an understanding of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) oversight of clinical research; and
• To become familiar with how developments in science and health are reported by the media and how to work effectively with reporters.

Topics

Topics covered in the course are:

• Ethical Issues in Human Subjects Research;
• Roles and Responsibilities of the Investigator;
• Roles and Responsibilities of the Institution;
• Regulatory Issues; and
• Clinical Investigators and the Mass Media.

To access the web-based offering of this course

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Good Clinical Laboratory Practice (online short course)

Introduction to Good Clinical Laboratory Practice (GCLP) is a free, online, open access training course developed by The Global Health Network and the Global Health Clinical Consortium (GHCC). Introduction to GCLP is a stand-alone short course for all those wanting to gain an understanding of GCLP and its application in laboratories. This peer reviewed course provides an introduction to GCLP, summarises the principles of GCLP and offers an overview of the implementation of GCLP within a clinical trial. It takes between 45 – 60 minutes to complete with a certificate issued upon successful completion of the final quiz.

 Course Overview

Duration:
This short course should take 45 – 60 minutes to complete.

Certification:
A certificate is issued once a minimum of 80% is achieved in the final quiz section.

Prerequisite:

Good Clinical Practice

Background:
The Global Health Clinical Consortium (GHCC) is comprised of clinical operations leaders from 14 Product Development Partners (PDPs). These organisations are conducting ~125 ongoing and planned trials to develop vaccines, microbicides/preventatives, therapeutic products and diagnostics covering more than 20 disease areas at more than 260 clinical research sites in resource-limited settings. The GHCC functions as a platform to share learnings and pool resources to leverage expertise across PDPs. This course was developed in collaboration with the The Global Health Network, using existing training already in use at PDP organisations. A mini-Working Group comprised of technical experts and non-technical reviewers from several of the PDPs developed this eLearning course. This course has also been reviewed by three technical peer reviewers.

Summary:
Good Clinical Laboratory Practice (GCLP) guidelines describe the application of those Good Laboratory Practice principles that are relevant to the analyses of samples from clinical trials while ensuring the purpose and objectives of the Good Clinical Practice principles are maintained. In so doing, the reliability, quality, consistency and integrity of data generated by clinical trial laboratories can be assure which is crucial to the outcome of any clinical trial.Introduction to Good Clinical Laboratory Practice is a stand-alone short course for all those wanting to gain an understanding of GCLP and its application in laboratories. This peer reviewed course provides an introduction to GCLP, summarises the principles of GCLP and offers an overview of the implementation of GCLP within a clinical trial.

Objectives: 
Upon successful completion of this course, you should be able to:

• describe the differences between Good Clinical Practice, Good Laboratory Practice and Good Clinical Laboratory Practice guidelines
• identify how GCLP compliance benefits laboratories
• know the principles of GCLP and understand the requirements of each principle
• identify how GCLP is implemented across the whole clinical trial process
• understand how GCLP guidelines could be interpreted and implemented in your laboratory

Acknowledgements

The Global Health Trials e-Learning Centre is built through the support and partnership of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (http://www.gatesfoundation.org/), the World-Wide Antimalarial Resistance Network (www.wwarn.org) and The East African Consortium for Clinical Research (www.eaccr.org).

Authors:

• Carmelita Africa – Clinical Project Associate, International Partnership for Microbicides.Web
• Liam Boggs – Training Manager, The Global Health Network, Centre for Tropical Medicine & Global Health, University of Oxford. Web
• Paramesh Chetty – Senior Manager,Clinical Laboratory Programme – Africa, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI). Web
• Rhea Coler – MSc, PhD, VP, Preclinical Biology, Infectious Disease Research Institute (IDRI). Web
• Sebastian Gelderbloem – Managing Director, Aeras Africa. Web
• Lakshmi Jayashankar – Senior Scientific Officer, Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Rockville, MD. Web
• Wendy Keller – Quality Assurance Manager, DNDi – Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative. Web
• Maureen Power – PATH Vaccine Solutions. Web

Reviewers:

• Hannelie Carstens, PhD – Director Quality Management and Compliance, International Partnership for Microbicides
• Maureen Lambrick – Sr. Manager Lab Development Services, Tuberculosis, Aeras Africa
• Motiur Rahman, MBBS, PhD – Head of Laboratories, Centre for Tropical Medicine, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, HO CHi Minh City, Vietnam

Use and reproduction of these e-learning materials:

These e-learning materials are owned by The Global Health Network. You are free to share or adapt this material but you must attribute it to The Global Health Network using the link www.theglobalhealthnetwork.org.

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Protecting Human Research Participants course… online

Overview of Course

Protecting Human Research Participants online training consists of seven modules; each addressing the principles used to define ethical research using humans and the regulations, policies, and guidance that describe the implementation of those principles. Four of these modules are followed by a quiz.

The entire course will take approximately 3 hours to complete.

BROWSER & FLASH PLAYER REQUIREMENTS

This course will work on any modern browser and makes use of the Flash Player, which is typically installed as a plug–in with most browsers. (The Flash Player plug–in is free and can be downloaded from http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/.) If the Flash Player is not installed in your browser, you will still be able to view the course’s content, but will not be able to view the interactive animations. This will not affect your ability to complete the course.

LOG IN INFORMATION

You may log in to the course using the email address and password that you recorded on your registration form. For any questions regarding your log in or for help retrieving your password, please use our Technical Support Form.

EXITING AND RE-ENTERING THIS PROGRAM

You can exit this program and return, logging on with the same email address and password, and the program will remember which sections you have completed. If you must leave the course prior to completion, it is advised that you first complete the section in which you are working. Your progress is only recorded when you complete a section and see a check mark next to that section on the Main Menu page.

Because this course is being tracked, bookmarking and returning to a page will not work for purposes of tracking. You MUST go through the log in process in order for your progress to be tracked.

NAVIGATION

The main menu, glossary and help page may be accessed at the top left horizontal menu from any page within the course. Within each module, you can navigate using the next and previous links at the top or bottom of each page.

RESOURCES

Primary source documents: Within each section are links to primary source documents. These links are blue and underlined. When clicked on, a new window will open in front of the main course window with the source document content.

 More information: Blue links with a small magnifying glass icon next to them denote more information to be seen by clicking on those links. The information will appear on your current screen.

Glossary terms: Glossary terms are indicated with red italicized type. There are three options to view glossary terms:

1. Move your cursor over the word and a box will appear with the definition
2. Click on the word and a new window will open on top of the main course window with all glossary items available for viewing
3. Click on the glossary link that appears in the menu at the top left of each page

Citations 1: Citations are indicated within the text by a number appearing as a superscript next to the content. There are two ways to view a citation:

1. Click on the number and a new window will open on top of the main course window with all citations available for viewing
2. From the Main Menu page, click on the citation link that appears in the menu at the top left

Case Studies: Throughout the course, Case Studies are presented to illustrate the topics being discussed. You will be asked to respond to a question about each Case Study by choosing an appropriate answer, from which you will be given feedback.

GLOSSARY

A glossary link is provided on the horizontal menu at the top of each page. Glossary items are also noted throughout the content as italicized and colored red. Moving the cursor on top of a glossary term will pop up a box with that term’s definition.

COURSE CONTENT AND TRACKING YOUR COMPLETION

The Main Menu lists each module of the program. To begin a module, click on the title in the Main Menu list. While you can choose the modules in any order, it is recommended that you start at the top and work your way down.

This course contains a total of 7 modules, 4 of which are followed by quizzes. To complete a module, read through all pages, clicking onto the “next” link located at the top of the page to continue through each, and continue on through to the end. Clicking through the last page will return you back to the Main Menu and record you having completed that module. Your progress is only recorded when you complete a module and see a check mark next to that module on the Main Menu page.

To the right of the Main Menu, there are user options. Some options, such as “Get Certificate” will not be available until you have completed all modules and quizzes.

While you can access the Main Menu at any time, your progress through this course is being tracked and is recorded only when you COMPLETE a module. If you must leave the course prior to completion, it is advised that you first complete the module in which you are working. If you do not see a check mark at the Main Menu after completing a module, please complete theTechnical Support Form.

QUIZZES: TESTING YOUR KNOWLEGE

A quiz will be given at the end of four of the modules. After submitting each quiz, it will be scored. If you score less than the required number of correct answers for a quiz, you must reread the module. After you reread the module, you may retake the quiz. This may be repeated until a satisfactory score has been attained.

CERTIFICATION

To successfully complete this course and receive a certificate, you must view the content in all 7 modules and pass all 4 of the quizzes.

Once the course is successfully completed, a link will become available on the main menu for you to print your personalized certificate. This certificate will always be available by logging into the course.

PDF VERSION OF “PROTECTING HUMAN RESEARCH PARTICIPANTS”

A PDF version of the PHRP course is available for download.

FOR REGISTRATION

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