STUDY OF TRAINING LEVEL OF CLINICAL TRIAL SPECIALISTS USING THE SELF-ASSESSMENTS SYSTEMS
Ensuring an appropriate level of professional training is an urgent problem of clinical trials. Lack of ordered training system for professionals in CT in Ukraine has created a situation in which most of the experts working in clinical drug development, have no core education - medical or pharmaceutical. To date, there was a need for the assessment of CT professionals training and substantiate the importance of ensuring proper qualification of CT specialists by obtaining postgraduate core education.The paper describes determining of the level of knowledge in principles and standards for the proper CT conduct among CT specialists using self-assessment system. Based on these results, the necessity of implementation in Ukrainian educational system the new specialty«Clinical Trials» in the section « Specific categories « that will provide opportunity to receive specialized education in CT and provide a high level of training of CT specialists and proper control of their training.