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We work through patient organizations to offer more in-depth interactive courses, and offer several courses directly for a fee.
In-depth Online Courses
Most patients, caregivers, and advocates never have the chance to go behind the scenes to understand how a pharmaceutical company works. Our in-depth online courses invite participants to explore subjects in more detail alongside researchers at a hypothetical company.
Each interactive course can be taken at your own pace.
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Course Series: Understanding Medicine Development Decision Making
This web-based course series is focused on providing a glimpse into the elaborate and complex decisions that are made throughout the drug discovery, clinical trials, and manufacturing R&D.
Participants will be able to:
- understand and anticipate the decisions at each stage of R&D
- describe the factors that influence these decisions
- identify the roles and people involved in making these decisions
Decisions Decisions
This free lesson provides an overview to our course series Understanding Medicine Development Decision Making.
It will give you a glimpse of what you'll learn in the in-depth course, including an introduction to the characters you'll meet along the way.
Open Water Part 1: Selecting a Research Project
The first course in our series on Decision Making in Pharmaceutical R&D will dive a little deeper into the decisions about selection, funding, and support for Research Projects. You will get to ride along with a team trying to win support for some truly innovative research.
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Open Water Part 2: Discovery & Preclinical
This second course in our series about Decision Making in Pharmaceutical Research and Development will navigate the decisions made during Research – specifically Discovery and Pre-Clinical Research. It will put you right in the middle of a Research Team as they struggle to overcome unbelievable odds and find a new molecule that MIGHT help patients someday.
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Open Water Part 3: Phase 1 Clinical Studies
The fourth module in our series on Decision Making in Pharmaceutical Research and Development. focuses on the decisions required for Phase 1 Clinical Studies. The stakes are higher as people participate in the studies. These first studies establish a beachhead that will allow the team to learn more and more about the compound. It gets pretty exciting!
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Working With Patient Organizations
We offer our courses at a discounted rate through patient organizations.
By partnering with patient organizations we are able to sell our courses at a discounted rate to be offered to members of those organizations. If you represent a patient organization that would like to offer our courses or you would like to refer an organization that you're a member of visit our Get Started page to connect with us.
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