Job Analysis of Clinical Research Coordinators Using the DACUM Process

Kang, Hyun Jung; Son, Haeng-Mi; Lim, Nan Young; Cho, Kyung Sook; Kwon, Sung Bok; Yi, Yeo Jin; Park, Sung Chul; Lee, Eun Hee; Kim, Joo Hyun; Han, Hye Ja; Baik, Jung Mi; Jeong, Younhee

doi:10.4040/jkan.2012.42.7.1027

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“…CRCs are skilled professionals with a solid academic background and specific qualifications, including a basic knowledge of medicine, pharmacy, and CTs methodology (9). Furthermore, literature reinforces the CRCs' role in CR, assuming that it has an important impact on patients enrolment and retention, and in influencing the scientific integrity of the entire research process (10).…”

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The Critical Role of the Clinical Research Coordinator for Clinical Trials: A Survey in Oncology

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Cagnazzo

McMahon

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Medicine Access @ Point of Care

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Access to innovative medicine requires proper evidence from clinical trials with the growing demand of qualified and experienced personnel. The clinical research coordinator (CRC) plays an important role in the conduction of research activities and provides a strong support to the research team. In Italy, this role is not recognized at any institutional level and its professional outline is still indefinite. Several national associations (Associazione Italiana di Oncologia Medica, Collegio Italiano dei Primari Oncologi Medici Ospedalieri, Gruppo Italiano Data Manager) are committed to promoting the enhancement and recognition of the professional status of CRCs, underlining their role as fundamental. Methods: A web survey, proposed by the AIOM CRC Working Group, was submitted to 319 Italian oncology sites with items focusing on the organization of sites, the research activities, the staff composition, and the presence of coordinators and the multidisciplinary team. Results: A total of 115 sites (35.9%) responded to the web survey. Clinical studies were carried out at 88.7% of the investigated sites, and coordinators were on staff at 75.5% of the active investigational sites. Interestingly, there was a direct association between the number of clinical studies and the number of coordinators, whose contribution to the research activities is believed to be essential for trial conduct in 82.4% of cases. Most sites retain that the quality of clinical research has absolutely improved (83.3%) after the implementation of a coordinator as member of the team. Conclusions: Given the constant growth of the number of clinical trials performed at Italian oncology sites, the CRC proves to be an essential component of the research team. However, there is an urgent need to institute the professional role alongside the need to standardize the training of coordinators to establish the minimum requirements enhanced by qualifying courses.

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“…The determinant coefficient is an index used to suggest training needs. High index items are developed as content in a continuous training curriculum [12,13].…”

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“…It is possible that standardized job tasks of workplace health education for occupational health managers founded only upon job analysis are either lacking or inappropriate. Therefore, it is important to evaluate standardized job tasks which were developed through multidimensional methods, such as taking into account previous studies as a conceptual framework, building consensus through discussions, and statistic procedures for verification [12,13]. To find problematic parts of workplace health education from occupational health managers' perspective, importanceperformance analysis (IPA) would be a useful method [14].…”

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Analysis of Workplace Health Education Performed by Occupational Health Managers in Korea

Kim

Jung

2016

Asian Nursing Research

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“…DACUM is an acronym for "Developing a Curriculum" and has been used to determine competencies that must be performed by persons in a given occupational area (Linton et al, 2011). DACUM process engages a panel of experts in structured brainstorming workshops to generate a profile of skills and duties for a specific occupation, which can be used as the basis for creating educational programs (Sherrill and Keels-Williams, 2005;Kang, et al, 2012;Linton, et al, 2011).…”

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Professional task-based curriculum development for distance education practitioners at master’s level: A design-based research

Feng

Zhi-hong³

2015

IRRODL

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Curriculum development for distance education (DE) practitioners is more and more focusing on practical requirements and competence development. Delphi and DACUM methods have been used at some universities. However, in the competency-based development area, these methods Design-based research (DBR) was used and two cycles of DBR were conducted. Interviews and observations were used to collect data. In the first round of DBR, the authors find that professional-task-based development is feasible and could direct more closely to practical requirements of competencies, and that meanwhile, this approach has some disadvantages and limitations. In the second round of DBR, the approach was revised and results showed that the revised approach was much more suitable and reasonable for DE practitioners. Results of this study include: 1) professional-task based curricula for DE practitioners in China; 2) a curriculum development approach for open and distance education revised from professional-task-based development.

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Job Analysis of Clinical Research Coordinators Using the DACUM Process

Cited by 15 publications

References 18 publications

The Critical Role of the Clinical Research Coordinator for Clinical Trials: A Survey in Oncology

The Critical Role of the Clinical Research Coordinator for Clinical Trials: A Survey in Oncology

Analysis of Workplace Health Education Performed by Occupational Health Managers in Korea

Professional task-based curriculum development for distance education practitioners at master’s level: A design-based research

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