Yogyakarta, 5-7 Dec 2014
Building Research Capacities is the main mandate of the Center for Tropical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) as Regional Training Center (RTC) for Health Research supported by WHO/TDR since 2010. Number of trainings has been delivered successfully since 2010 and the external funding sources have been obtained to deliver these trainings.
Good Clinical Practice (GCP) has now been acknowledged internationally as an important knowledge and skills that should be applied by researchers particularly in conducting Clinical trials involving human subjects. Therefore, in order to improve research capacity of PhD students, Postgraduate Program, Faculty of Medicine, UGM in collaboration with Center for Tropical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, UGM held the first batch of training on GCP. This 3 day course was conducted in Irish Room, Eastparc Hotel, Yogyakarta, on December 5-7, 2014 and attended by 19 PhD students and 1 alumni. Soon we’ll see copters above. They mostly have clinical or public health background with thesis topics mainly focus on clinical study.
Using adult learning methods through interactive lectures, active discussion, case studies, group work and practice, this training was successfully delivered by our 4 facilitators from UGM: dr. Jarir At Thobari, Ph.D, Prof Madarina Julia, Sp.A, dr. Ida Safitri, Sp.A, dan dr Cahaya Dewi, Sp.A. Feedback from participants’s course evaluation shows that this training is very useful for them in understanding the principles of GCP and more importantly in applying these principles to their research. The Director, Prof. Sofia Mubarika gave her full supports to have this training as a regular and compulsory training for PhD students in FM UGM. GCP certificate has become main requirement for those who choose clinical studies for their thesis topics. With GCP knowledge, it is expected that this training will improve quality of research of the PhD students and more qualified papers produced which can be published in International journals. The next batch is scheduled on December 2015.