Dr. Nicholas Herten-Greaven is the head of the Clinical Research Program at Oxford College of Arts, Business and Technology. He is a retired medical doctor, experienced academic and consultant actively involved in the design, implementation and delivery of heath related programs for Colleges and Universities. Dr. Nicholas is also an experienced educator and hands-on instructor with an in-depth knowledge of the Canadian Healthcare System. He brings an unusual exposure to, and an in-depth understanding of analysis of interface issues between practicing healthcare professionals such as clinical doctors, nurses and other delivery end streams, and research investigators, trialists, healthcare managers and bureaucrats (MOHLTC, MTCU) that provide and deliver new knowledge to the system in the first place.
Regarding clinical research “the focus should be on delivering well planned clinical research courses and training programs that are comprehensive, relevant and up to date” says Dr. Nicholas. “Clinical Research programs often show up as a bunch of subjects tossed together like a garden salad that do little more than to offer an arbitrary tasting of the topics du jour to the student, … programs that are often dependent on whatever happens to be available, or of some particular interest at the time.”
“Our clinical research program at Oxford is unique as it follows a planned sequence of courses and builds on solid fundamentals so as to provide the future coordinator, manager or trialist with a good set of hard and soft skills. Trainees often discover that the courses have surprisingly little to do with a background in clinical medicine or nursing care and that the materials in fact cover completely new areas.”
