Current Training Opportunities

Biospecimen Submission and Correlative Science Proposals:

• Improving Specimen Submissions to the SWOG Biospecimen Bank
• Biospecimen Quality, Compliance, Tips and Tricks
• NCTN Navigator Overview, Lessons Learned and Correlative Research - Challenges and Opportunities

Quality Assurance

• SWOG Quality Assurance Live Webinar Series
  • Upcoming webinar announcements and direct links to previous webinar recordings and supporting documents accessible via the webpage above.
• SWOG QA Audits - Top 10 Deficiencies

SWOG Members

• An Introduction and Overview of SWOG Dashboards (for SWOG Members)

Site Principal Investigator Workshop

• Enroll to the entire Site PI Workshop (login with your ID.me credentials), or the individual presentation sessions via links below.
  • Site Principal Investigator Workshop Introduction
  • Site Principal Investigator Role and Expectations
  • Best Practices of a Site Principal Investigator
  • Site PI Collaboration with Lead ORPs
  • NCTN and NCORP Participating Site Funding Mechanisms Training for Site PIs
  • SWOG and NCI Systems Overview Training
  • SWOG Institutional Membership Programs for Site PIs
  • SWOG Committee Participation for Site PIs
  • Data Management and Submission Overview for Site PIs
  • Serious Adverse Event Reporting Overview for Site PIs
  • Patient Follow-up, Unusual Patient Situations, and Statistical Implications Training for Site PIs
  • Institution Performance Reports and Tools to Support Data Quality - Training for Site PIs
  • Quality Assurance Audits and Corrective Action Plans - Training for Site PIs
  • Study Closure Training for Site PIs

SWOG Advanced Practice Provider Clinical Research Workshop

• To obtain CEU credit (via The Hope Foundation), you must enroll via the APP Workshop link and complete the workshop in its entirety (login with your CTEP credentials).
  ▪  Individual presentation sessions are also posted (without provision of CEU credit) via links below.
  • Module 1: Overview of NCI-Sponsored Research: NCTN and NCORP
  • Module 2: How do I become an NPIVR?
  • Module 3: Different Types of Protocols for APP Participation
  • Module 4: Cancer Control and Cancer Care Delivery Research Protocols: Roles of APPs
  • Module 5: Overcoming Barriers and Exploring Facilitators of APPs in Research
  • Module 6: Opportunities for Increasing Involvement of APPs in Research Bases
  • Module 7: Protocol Implementation: The Details

SWOG Oncology Research Professionals Regulatory Workshop

• Enroll to the entire Regulatory Workshop (login with your ID.me credentials), or the individual presentation sessions via links below.
  • Session 1: Introduction
  • Session 2: Regulatory 101 Panel Discussion
  • Session 3: Understanding the PMB
  • Session 4: Know Your IRBs Panel Discussion
  • Session 5: SWOG Perspectives and Common Challenges Panel Discussion
  • Session 6: Past Accomplishments & Hope for the Future

SWOG Oncology Research Professional (ORP) Training Materials:

• Tour of the SWOG Website
• (Re)Igniting Leadership
• Diversity Equity, and Inclusion: Lessons Learned and Implications for Future Programming
• Lugano Disease Assessment Training
• SWOG Lead Oncology Research Professional (Lead ORP) Training Materials: The forthcoming SWOG Lead ORP (formerly Head CRA) Workshop will include the following (Note: Most content is now accessible from the individual course links below. Forthcoming course content is not yet linked):
  • SWOG Lead Oncology Research Professional Workshop Introduction 
  • An Introduction to SWOG and the NCI (45 mins)
  • Leadership and Site Operations Modules
    • Leadership Perspective (17 mins)
    • NCI Trials - Site Operations Perspective (forthcoming modules)
      • Site-level feasibility assessment
      • Site-level activation processes
      • Institutional Roles
      • Collaboration with the SWOG Site PI
      • Tips, Tricks, and Tools
  • SWOG and NCI Systems Module
    • SWOG and NCI Systems Overview Training (14 mins)
  • Data Management and Resource Access Modules
    • Data Managment and Access Module Introduction for Lead ORPs (1 min)
    • CTSU Website Overview (9 mins)
    • SWOG Website Overview (4 mins)
    • SWOG CRA Workbench Overview (4 mins)
    • iMedidata RAVE Access for Lead ORPs (6 mins)
    • SWOG Specimen Tracking System for Lead ORPs (8 mins)
    • Central Monitoring (5 mins)
  • Funding and Site Payments Modules
    • NCTN and NCORP Study Funding and Payment Distribution (20 mins)
    • Open Funding (10 mins)
    • National Coverage Analysis Overview (4 mins)
  • Study Activation and Management Modules
    • Delegation of Tasks Log (2 mins)
    • Adverse Events Training for Lead ORPs (8 mins)
    • Dose Modifications Training for Lead ORPs (1 min)
    • Serious Adverse Event Reporting Training for Lead ORPs (30 mins)
    • SAE Reporting - Specific Exceptions to Expedited Reporting for Lead ORPs (4 mins)
    • Data Entry in Difficult Situations Training for Lead ORPs (2 mins)
    • Record Retention Training for Lead ORPs (3 mins)
  • Reports and Tools for Data Quality Modules
    • Expectations and Expectation Reports for Lead ORPs
    • Vital Status Expectations Training for Lead ORPs
    • Query Reports Training for Lead ORPs
    • CTSU reports - Data Quality Portal (DQP) Training for Lead ORPs
  • Regulatory Module
    • Regulatory Expectations from a QA Perspective - Training for Lead ORPs (13 mins)
  • Quality Assurance Modules
    • Audits and Quality Assurance Program -Training for Lead ORPs (20 mins)
    • Protocol Deviations vs. Deficiencies Training for Lead ORPs (4 mins)
    • When is my Institution's next Audit Due? - Training for Lead ORPs (2 mins)

Materials in Spanish / Presentaciones en español:

• Para acceder a los enlaces, es necesario iniciar sesión con ID.me o sus credenciales de ID.me.
  • Introducción a los ensayos clínicos SWOG y el CRA Workbench (62 mins)
  • Introducción a CTSU (87 mins)
  • Introducción de protocolos de SWOG (84 mins)
  • Ingreso de datos para SWOG: Pre-Rave & Rave (103 mins)
  • Sistema de seguimiento de muestras (SWOG) (56 mins)
    • Sistema de seguimiento de muestras (SWOG): las muestras que no se pueden enviar (6 mins)
  • Reportes y Herramientas para Asegurar la Calidad de los Datos (86 mins)
  • Auditorías: preparación y experiencias (49 mins)
  • Una introducción a IROC (48 mins)
  • Registro en CITI (4 mins)

NIH Introduction to the Principles and Practice of Clinical Research (IPPCR) 

• The Introduction to the Principles and Practice of Clinical Research (IPPCR) course trains registrants on how to effectively and safely conduct clinical research. The course focuses on the spectrum of clinical research and the research process by highlighting biostatistical and epidemiologic methods, study design, protocol preparation, patient monitoring, quality assurance, ethical and legal issues, and much more. 

Principles of Clinical Pharmacology

• The Principles of Clinical Pharmacology online lecture series covers the fundamentals of clinical pharmacology as a translational scientific discipline focused on rational drug development and utilization in therapeutics. The course focuses on the following core principles of pharmacology: pharmacokinetics; drug metabolism and transport; drug therapy in special populations; assessment of drug effects; drug discovery and development; pharmacogenomics and pharmacotherapy.