{"id":2459,"date":"2016-07-06T13:48:18","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T17:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/crro\/?page_id=2459"},"modified":"2024-05-16T15:00:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T19:00:34","slug":"research-professional-network","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/crro\/research-professional-network\/","title":{"rendered":"The BMC\/BU Medical Campus Research Professionals Network (RPN)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An important initiative and service of the Clinical &amp; Translational Science Institute\u00a0is the Research Professionals Network (RPN). \u00a0Its overarching goal is to enhance the quality of human\/clinical research at the BMC\/BU Medical Campus by supporting the professional development of clinical research support staff. Some of the major objectives of the RPN are to:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Provide professional development opportunities for research professionals through trainings, workshops, seminars, discussion groups, and other educational events<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Encourage mentoring and networking amongst research professionals within and outside of the BMC\/BU Medical Campus research community<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Support an effective, efficient system to keep network members up to date on changing policies and regulations<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Increase awareness and communication of best practices and innovation to promote participant recruitment, retention, and satisfaction<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maximize satisfaction and productivity of all members of the research team through sharing of resources<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The RPN has a Leadership Committee\u00a0with representatives from various research roles and major departments and offices at BMC\/BU Medical Campus involved in the conduct, support, and regulation of human\/clinical research. There will be an annual RPN meeting where members can interact and celebrate successes. An annual RPN member survey provides a dynamic needs assessment and metrics to help plan and evaluate RPN activities. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Membership in the RPN is open to all BMC\/BU Medical Campus research personnel involved in coordinating clinical\/human subjects research such as research managers, study\/clinical\/research coordinators, data managers\/analysts, and research assistants. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The goal of the Research Professionals Network is to support the professional development of clinical research staff and enhance the quality of research at BMC\/BUMC.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i><span>To stay updated on RPN events and information, we recommend <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/crro\/home\/email-signup\/\"><i><span>signing up for our email list<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><em><span>For more information or questions, please contact us at\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"mailto:crro@bu.edu\"><span>crro@bu.edu<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An important initiative and service of the Clinical &amp; Translational Science Institute\u00a0is the Research Professionals Network (RPN). \u00a0Its overarching goal is to enhance the quality of human\/clinical research at the BMC\/BU Medical Campus by supporting the professional development of clinical research support staff. Some of the major objectives of the RPN are to: Provide professional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1250,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":17,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/crro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/crro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/crro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/crro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/crro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2459"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/crro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6580,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/crro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2459\/revisions\/6580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/crro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}