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Educational Excellence
CINP is committed to providing the highest quality of education in neuropsychopharmacology. Education and training around the world is provided through dedicated courses or workshops and is an important component of its scientific meetings.
Good Clinical Practice On-Line Course
The CINP educational committee is pleased to offer CINP members free online training in Good Clinical Practice (GCP). This has been facilitated through a partnership with Quintiles Inc. Please help us to publicize this opportunity to colleagues. The value of this course alone is higher than CINP membership dues. Please let non-CINP colleagues know about this online offering, and encourage them to apply for membership. This GCP course adds to the free content on the educational portal of the CINP web site, which is undergoing a redevelopment of opportunites to add to current research and practice within the field.
The course titled: Introduction to Clinical Drug Development Process: ICH/FDA Good Clinical Practice for Clinical Trial Sites is an online educational programme containing six (6) one-hour modules designed for clinical and research staff. These modules will provide you with the information that you need to successfully implement a clinical trial at your site. As you go through the modules, there will be didactic information as well as exercises and assessment questions.
Completion of this educational programme will allow you to:
- Apply Good Clinical Practice in the conduct of clinical trials at your site
- Identify the parties involved in clinical research and describe their roles and responsibilities
- Locate GCP references and use them in resolving issues that arise at your site
- Recognise the importance of adherence to GCP by all research staff in order to prevent research misconduct and pass inspections and audits.
If you would like to complete the GCP programme please log in and click on the link that will appear here. Once you have reached the homepage please click "Create User Profile" which will take you to the registration page. Please ensure you insert your CINP Membership number. If you are unsure of your membership number please contact the CINP Central Office.
CINP-NEI initiative
The CINP has now made available membership in the Neuroscience Education Institute at no charge for CINP members.
You must be a CINP member and log into the website in the left box if you wish to access the NEI resources. You can become member here.
What is NEI Membership?
The Neuroscience Education Institute (NEI) was founded by CINP member Stephen Stahl in 2001, and has been involved in developing courses especially in psychopharmacology throughout the world. Now, NEI has developed an online membership program, making these courses and materials available through the website at www.neiglobal.com. In addition to online lectures, and the availability of hundreds of hours of CME activities and credits for free, the NEI Membership also includes a monthly newsletter with timely articles as well as access to numerous other articles, including Dr. Stahl's Brainstorms series in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry; Trends in
Psychopharmacology series in CNS Spectrums, and Clinical Overview articles in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. In addition there are weekly updates, cases, webinars, slide sets, continuing medical education credits, downloadable audio, teaching tools, clinicians’ tools, an online animated mechanism of action library, and much more. Additional programs include a close collaboration with Cambridge University Press, for online access to numerous textbooks and publications.
What is the Master Psychopharmacologist Program?
A recent enhancement has been the development of the Master Psychopharmacologist Program and its associated online Psychopharmacology Fellowship. The Master Psychopharmacologist program begins with a self assessment exam in 10 subject areas across all of psychopharmacology. This exam is interactive, showing not only correct and incorrect answers, but the reasons why answers are correct or incorrect. Following the self assessment examination, clinicians can start the fellowship program, and must complete it within a year. When completed, the candidate can take a final exam, and become designated a Master Psychopharmacologist if the examination is passed.
What is the online Psychopharmacology Fellowship Program?
This program is aimed at practicing psychopharmacologists, but can be attempted by upper level trainees in psychiatry. It is comprised of 24 weekly activities that take place once a week for half a year. One week the activity is a case; another week a mechanism of action animated lesson of drug action or disease state; another week an article; and the fourth week a "snippet" or brief lecture. Each activity takes only about 30 minutes. These four weekly activities rotate every week of the month, and for six months in a row. After completing 24 activities, the fellow can take the online final exam. A transcript of completed activities is automatically generated as the fellow progresses. The transcript will also suggest areas to study and references to read in those areas identified as needing study from the self assessment examination.