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Wonja Academy program

Clinical Research Mastery

An industry-ready foundation across coordinator, monitoring and study operations work, taught against real protocols.

Program at a glance

Duration
6 weeks, live online cohort
Contact hours
220 contact hours, live cohort
Cadence
Runs 4 times a year
Tuition
$1,997
Target roles
Clinical Research Coordinator, Study Assistant, Site Start-Up Associate

Payment plans available. Fees are confirmed in writing before enrolment.

See cohort dates and fee
Program detail

What this program covers.

Who it is for

Beginners, healthcare professionals new to clinical research, and career switchers.

Entry expectations

  • No prior clinical research experience required
  • A healthcare, life science or research-adjacent background helps but is not essential
  • Comfortable attending live sessions and completing practical work between them

What you leave with

  • Foundation across CRC, CRA and study operations
  • Internationally recognised competencies employers look for
  • Live instruction using real-world protocols
Curriculum

Week by week.

Every module pairs live instruction with practical work that is reviewed against defined criteria.

  1. Week 1, foundations

    Drug development, global regulation and career pathways

    • Sponsors, CROs, sites and who owns which decision
    • ICH GCP E6(R3) applied to daily site tasks, not recited
    • Protocol anatomy: reading a study the way a coordinator does

  2. Week 2, start-up part 1

    Pre-activation regulatory work and site qualification

    • Feasibility, site selection and start-up timelines
    • Regulatory binder and TMF expectations
    • Ethics submissions and approval workflow

  3. Week 3, start-up part 2

    Site activation and operational readiness

    • Activation checklists, training records and delegation logs
    • Vendor, lab and supply readiness before first participant
    • Running a site initiation visit as the site contact

  4. Week 4, conduct part 1

    Participant-facing conduct and data operations

    • Running a consent discussion and documenting it defensibly
    • Visit windows, procedures and scheduling
    • ALCOA+ source records, EDC entry and query resolution

  5. Week 5, conduct part 2

    Safety oversight and monitoring execution

    • AE, SAE and SUSAR handling with reporting timelines
    • IP accountability, storage and dispensing records
    • Working with the monitor through an interim monitoring visit

  6. Week 6, closeout and quality

    Trial closure, quality defence and interview readiness

    • Closeout activities, reconciliation and archiving
    • Assemble your work into a Wonja Labs casebook
    • Interview practice against role-specific scenarios
Included

What enrolment includes.

  • Live instruction from an IAOCR Accredited Trainer
  • Six rolling capstones marked against defined criteria
  • Hands-on EDC practice on a teaching study
  • Recordings and program materials retained after the cohort
  • Entry into a Wonja Labs casebook to build Passport evidence
  • Wonja Academy certificate of completion

Rudy Malle personally holds a current Q-IAOCR accreditation as an Internationally Qualified Clinical Research Trainer, Trainer No. 16167194. Every Wonja Academy program is designed and delivered by Rudy, so learners are trained by an IAOCR Accredited Trainer. A Wonja Academy certificate of completion is issued by Wonja only and is not an IAOCR credential. Passport evidence still comes from demonstrated work in Wonja Labs.

Role pathways

Roles this prepares you for.

Every capstone has a core requirement plus an optional deeper section, so you can weight your work towards the role you are targeting.

The right fit

Is this you?

A good fit if you

  • Want to enter clinical research and have no site experience yet
  • Are a nurse, pharmacist, scientist or laboratory professional changing direction
  • Have been applying without callbacks and need demonstrated work to show
  • Want hands-on practice rather than lecture slides
  • Can hold a consistent weekly commitment for six weeks

Backgrounds people arrive from

  • Registered nurses and other bedside clinicians
  • Pharmacists and PharmD graduates
  • Life science graduates in biology, chemistry or public health
  • Medical laboratory technologists
  • Healthcare and science-adjacent career changers
Included tooling

What you get access to.

Practice environments and job-search tooling that come with enrolment, so the work you do turns into something you can show.

Hands-on EDC practice

Work in an electronic data capture environment built to mirror sponsor study setups, so data entry is something you have done rather than read about.

  • eCRF entry, queries and source data verification
  • A set of completed forms you can talk through in interview

Wonja Labs access

Role-specific casebooks and simulations. Completed work is scored against defined criteria and becomes the evidence behind your Passport.

  • Scenarios across coordinator, monitoring and data paths
  • Replay protocol, safety and monitoring workflows as often as needed

Job-search tooling

Résumé and application tooling used alongside the program so your search starts the week you finish.

  • Résumé and cover letter versions tuned per application
  • Application tracking and interview preparation
Schedule

Upcoming cohorts.

Dates, application deadlines and format for each cohort. Applying is not an offer of a place; we confirm your cohort by email.

Next cohort being scheduled.

Dates for this program are not published yet. Apply below and we will send the schedule as soon as it is confirmed.

Enrolment

How enrolment works.

This program is application based. No payment is taken on the site.

  1. Apply

    Answer a short set of qualifying questions. It takes about two minutes and no payment is taken on the site.

  2. Review

    We review your application and respond by email, normally within two working days.

  3. Enrol

    Confirm your cohort on an admissions call. Fees and payment plan are set out in writing before you commit.

Start the application

About ten minutes. No payment on the site.

Questions

Before you apply.

Still have questions?

Talk to admissions about fit, cohort timing or funding before you apply. We reply within one business day.

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Apply

Apply to Clinical Research Mastery.

The full application takes about ten minutes and covers your background, target role, availability and funding. We read every answer and reply within one business day.

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Ask about Clinical Research Mastery.

Short form. We reply within one business day with cohort dates, format and next steps. Submitting an application is not an offer of a place.