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Recruitment Innovation Center

RICSince Fall 2016, the Center for Knowledge Management (CKM) has contributed to Vanderbilt Health's Recruitment Innovation Center (RIC), bringing expertise in critical appraisal of the biomedical and grey literature, health literacy, learning styles, clear communication, and computer science. The RIC is funded by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) at the National Insitutes of Health. 

Examples of CKM's contributions to the RIC include: 

  • Reviewing the literatures on issues pertaining to recruitment and retention in clinical trials
  • Evaluating platforms for delivering online learning material
  • Contributing to the development, evaluation, and maintenance of a massive open online course (Faster Together) to help research teams build skills in how to more effectively recruit and retain participants in clinical trials
  • Developing training for the Trial Innovation Network Training Program for Multicenter Clinical Trial Management to support broad participation in clinical trials
  • Contributing to dissemination initiatives