GCP Central Reviews 174

The course is clear and easy to follow.

The Expert CTR training was very detailed. The mixture of in between polls and MC questions made the training experience interactive. Such good Didactic and Methodic I have not seen with any other online training. The price is absolutely fair. Also that the course content is available after the course is finished is very good.

I liked very much the way the chapters and their different parts are organised and the method of reading/answering questions throughout the course. It is not worried at all to follow this course.
it is remarkable as well the such a good way the different topics are addressed.

The training was well structured and easy to understand. The only thing I was missing is information on how the documents to be submitted under CTR differ from those under CTD (e.g. in terms of IMPD structure or the need for blinding confidential information in certain documents).

fine test. Clearly readable. Manageable

Superb! I took 3 courses from Forschungsdock Akademie and must say that it has taught me a lot in depth in 2 weeks. If you are looking for a course that really teaches you in an interactive and engaging way, then this is the right place. The course design and content has kept me coming back for more as I could not find anything similar, in depth, interactive, with historical and present facts around GCP.

Amazing course material, love the service :)

The information is good - questions help to understand and remember the study material.
However
The 7,5 hours set for it are completely not realistic - if say atleast 3 times as much - at least. The exam takes an hour for example
Why do you have to download every document - should be optional or a spot where you can look up these files
And the questions are hard - especially for not native Dutch speakers or not clear also for Dutch speaking people.
A score of 80% minimum is high
Hope this helps

It was informative.
I thought that some of the questions were a bit 'strange' - not exactly dealing with the information we read. Sometimes the answers could not be verified in the text.

Great knowledge, but complicated questions on the tests .

EU CTR expert course is very good. Covers all aspects of the CTR and is clearly explained with helpful questions and exercises.

The registration was easy. The website works good and is attractive.
The amount of knowledge that is presented is a bit to much for the goal I am after

The way the information is presented is really good, a combination of text, video's, e-mailings etc..

There is some foreknowledge required to directly understand everything, some terms i was not familiar with..

The pdf's with flows etc didn't always work, they're not very well structured...

Great content of the course. The only thing that made the experience a little bit harder than necessary, was the time it took to read and study the content. It took at least twice as long as the estimated time.

Very interesting, interactive and informative course!
But I do not agree with some correct answers in tests, some questions are ill-defined.

nice, interactive training, possibility to pause and restart so you can easily mix it in with other activities. covers full scope of GCP for all involved roles.

Yesterday I completed the WMO/GCP re-certification course. I have done the main training three years ago and many of the points I'll mention apply to that one as well.
While the basis of the courses could be considered quite good, there are many flaws that make the GCP trainings a very frustrating and cumbersome experience. There are plenty of questions in the knowledge quiz/exam, but also throughout the training modules that are frustratingly confusing to the point that answer options are severely overlapping and literally both options are mentioned in the GCP manual and could be considered correct. For other questions, two distinct answer options are literally the same. Again for others, the answer key was apparently implemented wrongly, as a correct answer was considered as wrong or vice versa. Some of the questions in modules are being reused in later modules of the same training. Or the paragraphs in the texts have been copied in twice, not to mention include spelling and grammar mistakes. One question in the exam was supposed to give 2 characteristics of a study, then asking which law/directive the study falls under. However, both of the presented characteristics were the same, making it a very confusing task to try to answer.
Each of these things could be considered as nitpicky, however the multitude of these issues does get overbearing for a course that costs quite a significant amount of money.
Other examples were that the re-certification training was only available in Dutch (which is fine, it's for the Dutch certification after all), however there was just a random module that was completely in English. Furthermore, while the modules are set up in a diverse fashion, with different types of questions, polls, videos, emails, documents to download, the implementation of this is more than sloppy. I was not able to download about half the documents of the re-certification. The site would just refresh, but nothing else would happen. Additionally, there are plenty of questions in the modules and the test that were not answered either in the training texts not the documents (barring that I couldn't download so many of them). Of course the actual exam is technically open book, meaning I can use the GCP manual for guidance. But that makes me wonder why I pay for the training, if I need to look up so much information anyway.
On the upside, the interactions I have had with the sales and customer service department were pleasant and helpful.
So while there is a foundation for a program that could be intriguing and efficient, the abysmal implementation elicits more anger and frustration, rather than making this a learning experience. Please get somebody to proofread your course/trainings.

The quality of the course is ok. There are a lot of grammar and spelling mistakes, which is quite annoying when reading through the modules. Furthermore, my training modules did not end with a test. So basically, I paid a lot of money to read through the information and automatically received a certificate that does not even have some kind of seal on it. So I don't know if it is even acknowledged in the industry and provides any advantage for me.

This week Marieke Meulemans, CEO of GCP Central, provided an GCP Essentials training at Leyden Labs. The GCP experience of the audience ranged from very experienced to beginners. The training was very easy for everyone to follow, due to the extensive knowledge and experience of the trainer and the enthusiastic way of presenting. All questions were answered competently. We learned a lot from it.

The training Marieke gave us was very interesting and helpfull, she gave us practical tips and tools we could use. She also gave us tips for beging more confident in going against the CRAs, when they expect certain things that are not required in the GCP guidelines. it gave me more confidence to be critical in the requirements from sponsors and to be more involved in the protocol/ICF documents.