For most of its history, biomedical research has been conducted in a relatively unregulated environment, with research justified solely on the basis that the activity ultimately benefits mankind.

This module can be taken at any time and is offered throughout the year and you will have two weeks access for each module you book.

Detailed Description

Research subjects often felt obliged to participate, with little or no hope of personal benefit. In this module, we will look at how attitudes, conditions, standards and safeguards have developed and changed over the last hundred years, including the emergence of substantial human rights protections, and protocols for protecting 'vulnerable' patient-subjects.  

Today, modern medical research is guided by a literal profusion of codes of practice, professional association and research committee guidelines, international protocols and national legislation. Research purposes,  effectiveness and methods now have to be stringently justified, subject to broad principles and high standards of good clinical practice.

The course is taken online on a self-access basis and offers a flexible way to study while maintaining work and personal commitments.