176 Recategorizing SC CTSI’s Online Educational Library using ACTS competencies for research professionals: Process and lessons learned

Abstract

Objectives/Goals: The SC CTSI’s Online Educational Library (OEL) is a robust clearinghouse for educational content, containing approximately 250 videos. We outline the motivation, method, process, and outcomes for undertaking a massive recategorization of our OEL to better align the videos with applied skills necessary for clinical research professionals. Methods/Study Population: Our hub’s robust workforce development and educational cores produce seminars, classes, lectures, and symposia that are recorded and repackaged for the OEL. The audience for our OEL includes research professionals from all stages of their career, such as research coordinators, research administrators, regulatory experts, biostatisticians, students, academics, investigators, community members, and others at our institution and globally. The content in the OEL was not efficiently organized and thus difficult for researchers to use. We employed qualitative content analysis to organize the videos in alignment with the eight competencies created by the Association for Clinical Research Professionals (ACRP), augmenting the competencies to best capture the content of and skills being taught in our videos. Results/Anticipated Results: We refined the ACRP categories to best fit our needs and applied the categorization mechanism to approximately 250 videos. Our categories included communication, dissemination, and teamwork (45 videos), data management and informatics (27), ethics and participant safety (13), leadership and professionalism (24), regulatory and quality sciences (48), research and study conduct (44), research and study design (49), study and site management (54), and other (27). Some videos appear in multiple categories. Discussion/Significance of Impact: Detailing our approach and process will help other CTSAs harmonize their educational offerings to move toward a more unified method and process for organizing trainings and education in the CTR space and will better serve learners.