Similar to GCP training, FM UGM has also committed to have GCLP Training as regular activities mainly for laboratory technicians and lectures. GCLP Program was held in 6 weekly meetings during October – November 2014 in Radioputro Building, FM UGM. It was attended by 19 participants with varied background from lecturers, lab technicians to administrative staff. As shown in Figure 1, nearly 100 participants in total were trained for GCLP since 2010. The next batch is scheduled on October – November 2015. read more

Since 2012, Faculty of Medicine, UGM put in place of GCP Training for lecturers who are researchers and clinicians in a regular basis. Training on GCP batch 4 and 5 were conducted Eastparc Hotel on October 15-17, 2014 and November 14-16, 2014 respectively. Fifty participants were trained in 2014 with 163 participants trained cumulatively (figure 1). There will be 2 more batches are scheduled in 2015. read more

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. read more

Knowledge and skills on Good Clinical Practice (GCP) has become main requirement for any qualified clinical studies including IDAMS Study that is now conducted in Yogyakarta. IDAMS Study is a multicenter study which is held in 6 countries funded by European Commission and aims to conduct a clinical evaluation of Dengue and identification of risk factors for severe disease. During their last year visit, clinical monitor for this study found some problems particularly in filling the Case Report Form and Informed consent process. It was suggested that it is needed a GCP training particularly for health staff who are newly involved in this study in order to protect human subjects and obtain a credible data. read more