Section outline

  • Lecture:  Nuts and Bolts  - Conducting a Trial

    Should one do a trial; pilot studies; funding sources; contracts; budgets; the study team; team management; space; recruitment of study subjects; starting the protocol; forms; compliance and follow-up; final visit and post-trial.

    Faculty:  Deborah Grady

    • Lecture Update: Please use Dr. Grady's 2019 lecture & slides "Nuts & Bolts" for 2020.  A zoom meeting will not be held.

    • Session Slides:

    • Session Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Required Reading:

      Designing Clinical Research (4th Edition), Chapter 11, pages 158-159 and Chapter 17.

    • Assignment: There is no homework assignment for Lecture 8.

    • Final Exam: Take Home Final Exam to be posted on course website on March 12, 2020; and is due by 10am on Friday, March 20, 2020. Email to Teaching Assistants at UCSFClinicalTrials2020@gmail.com

    • Epi205 Final Exam_2020 File