In this course, you’ll learn how to design and carry out clinical trials. Each design choice has implications for the quality and validity of your results. This course provides you and your team with essential skills to evaluate options, make good design choices, and implement them within your trial. You’ll learn to control for bias, randomize participants, mask treatments and outcomes, identify errors, develop and test hypotheses, and define appropriate outcomes. Finally, a trial without participants is no trial at all, so you’ll learn the guiding principles and develop the essential skills to ethically and conscientiously recruit, obtain consent from, and retain trial participants.
Status: Informed Consent
Informed Consent
Status: Clinical Research Ethics
Clinical Research Ethics
Beginner·Course·4 hours
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5.0
·Reviewed Feb 1, 2023
Great overview of the key aspects of Clinical Trial design and conduct, a great introduction to the topic at the right level of detail.
5.0
·Reviewed Apr 25, 2023
This course is really perfect to understand design and conduct of clinical trail from scratch.
5.0
·Reviewed Aug 10, 2025
Very Informative, topics discussed are real life scenarios. Course is constructed beautifully, terminology used is easy to understand.
4.0
·Reviewed Aug 21, 2024
first 3 modules very good and rigorous- good background for sap. last 2 modules mostly common sense.
5.0
·Reviewed Nov 9, 2023
Very easy-to-understand content. Highly practical and relevant information.
4.0
·Reviewed Jul 16, 2025
Interesting concepts for anyone starting in the clinical trials world. Would have been nice getting a few more use cases and graphic content, but the course structure and content is good overall.
4.0
·Reviewed Jul 7, 2023
Really lets you know the basics of clinical trials. A very nice course for beginners
4.0
·Reviewed Nov 16, 2023
wonderful course who work upon clinical research field
5.0
·Reviewed Mar 13, 2024
Great course. Very clear examples and presentations.
4.0
·Reviewed Sep 9, 2023
Tremendous amount of slide information that was not discussed. Learning became confusing.
4.0
·Reviewed Sep 15, 2023
Some concepts are a little confusing but overall the course gives a very good overview of the topic.
5.0
·Reviewed May 9, 2024
The lecturers deliver on point content and it's always easy to access the information anytime anywhere. Thank you.
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4.0
·Reviewed Sep 21, 2023
The course is good, but sometimes it's lacking in examples or in explaining basic terminology of clinical trials for people without experience.
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Prudence
5.0
·Reviewed May 10, 2024
The lecturers deliver on point content and it's always easy to access the information anytime anywhere. Thank you.
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Eseadi
5.0
·Reviewed Aug 19, 2023
It was an incredible experience and added to my understanding of the "how" and "why" of clinical trials.
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Luis
3.0
·Reviewed Oct 24, 2023
I think the course is not necessarily for beginners. As typical with academics, they tend to talk to their audience assuming everyone comes from the same background, without a proper introduction of the topics. I was lost in the first lectures because they start talking about bias, but did not even give an intro on what are clinical trials in the first place? They jump into bias and ways to reduce bias, when for a beginners course I was expecting something more high-level and didactical in the first course.
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S
3.0
·Reviewed Oct 9, 2023
The graphs visuals are hard to read. Narration doesn't match slide content.
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Jacqui
5.0
·Reviewed Feb 2, 2023
Great overview of the key aspects of Clinical Trial design and conduct, a great introduction to the topic at the right level of detail.
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Jeffrey
4.0
·Reviewed Jan 27, 2023
This was a very useful and interesting course. It would be nice if it was a video rather than just audio (for me the difference between 4 and 5 stars), but for content, it was really good.
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Ana
3.0
·Reviewed Jan 22, 2025
Could include exercises. There is a lot of slides with words, and word, and words,…
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asincuya
5.0
·Reviewed Mar 7, 2025
I wanted to take a moment to sincerely thank you for delivering such an outstanding module. The lectures were incredibly well-structured and the information was presented in a way that was easy to digest and understand. Your ability to break down complex concepts and explain them so clearly really made a difference in my learning experience.
I truly appreciate the effort and dedication you put into teaching. The content has been so helpful to me, and I feel much more confident in my understanding now. Thank you once again for being such a great instructor!
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Iván
5.0
·Reviewed May 3, 2026
The Design and Conduct of Clinical Trials course is well structured, methodologically sound, and highly practical. It covers the full operational arc of a trial, with strong emphasis on recruitment, site selection, planning, monitoring, and retention, while also grounding these topics in core ethical principles such as beneficence, justice, and respect for persons. The inclusion of real-world examples and implementation strategies makes the content directly relevant to clinical research practice.
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Rosario
5.0
·Reviewed Aug 21, 2023
Recomendaría encarecidamente este curso a otros estudiantes interesados en la investigación clínica. No solo fortalecerá sus fundamentos teóricos, sino que también les proporcionará las habilidades prácticas necesarias para sobresalir en la planificación y ejecución de ensayos clínicos. Estoy agradecida por esta experiencia educativa y emocionada por las perspectivas que se han abierto gracias a lo que he aprendido en este curso.
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Roybel
5.0
·Reviewed Jan 20, 2026
Un gran curso, nivel adecuado, bastante exigente pero completo. Ejemplos reales y casos que llevan a analisis. Excelente participacion y enfoque.
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Asiphe
5.0
·Reviewed Aug 11, 2025
Very Informative, topics discussed are real life scenarios. Course is constructed beautifully, terminology used is easy to understand.
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Dinidu
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 9, 2023
informative and many new concepts learned. highly recommended for people awaiting to enroll in clinical research field.
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Vikas
5.0
·Reviewed Apr 25, 2023
This course is really perfect to understand design and conduct of clinical trail from scratch.
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sanyukta
5.0
·Reviewed Oct 4, 2023
It was truly informative and I learned the process by which clinical trials are carried out.
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Bwalya
5.0
·Reviewed Jun 28, 2023
Excellent course with ease to follow and practical guides on the design of clinical trials.
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Ashu
5.0
·Reviewed Nov 10, 2023
Very easy-to-understand content. Highly practical and relevant information.
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Pharm.
5.0
·Reviewed Sep 4, 2024
Interesting and engaging lectures on design and conduct of clinical trails
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Salvatore
5.0
·Reviewed Apr 3, 2025
Very informative and well done. I founded it useful for my background